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Pascual vs Pasha

American parents have registered 3,054 Pascuals since 1880, against 906 Pashas. Pascual is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Pascual against Pasha, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Pascual Pasha

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Pascual has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1977, when Pascual had 20 and Pasha had 20.

Side by side

  Pascual Pasha
Total US births 3,054906
Most in one year 4827
Babies in 2025 3311
Estimated living today 2,200880
Median age today 3231
Peak year 19931974
Best rank 1,769th boys2,922nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,450thunranked
First recorded 18881964
Girls / boys 0 / 3,054498 / 408

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Pascual and Pasha.