Pascal

Pascal is the 9,639th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,222 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 92,800.

By the numbers

People: 3,222
Rank: 9,639th
How common: 1 in 92,800
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

from paschālis (“Paschal; of or pertaining to Easter”), from pascha + -ālis, for birth on Easter, or in honor of the 9th-century pope Paschal I (died 824). The programming language was named after French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–1662).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Pascal described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 41.3%
Black, not Hispanic 41.3%
Hispanic or Latino 12.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Pascal

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Pedro Pascal (born 1975)Chilean and American actor
Jean-Claude Pascal (1927–1992)French comedian and singer
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot (born 1943)president of Haiti
Amy Pascal (born 1958)American film producer and business executive
Christine Pascal (1953–1996)French actress, screenwriter, director
Jean Pascal (born 1982)Haitian-Canadian boxer
Jacqueline Pascal (1625–1661)French poet

People named Pascal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Pascal

Also a first name

Pascal has been given to 2,561 American babies as a first name since 1889, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.