Paschal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: antipope
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/paskəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paschal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 28K
- USUnited States1 in 55K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 317 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
antipope
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paschal counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #234 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 2 | Paschal | 37 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Paschal | 80 |
| US United States | — | 6,075 | 1 in 55K | 6.1K | Paschal | 317 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #834 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Paschal | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 107K | 28 | Paschal | 67 |
| MR Mauritania | #450 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Paschal | 1 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Paschal | 5 |
| NC New Caledonia | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Paschal | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Isaiah Addison Paschalb. 1808USAmerican politician (1808-1868)
- Thomas M. Paschalb. 1845USAmerican politician (1845-1919)
- Elizabeth Paschal O'Connorb. 1853USwriter (1853-1931)
- Ben Paschalb. 1895USAmerican baseball player (1895–1974)
- Bill Paschalb. 1921USAmerican football player (1921–2003)
- Jim Paschalb. 1926USAmerican racing driver (1926–2004)
- Bobby Paschalb. 1941USAmerican college basketball coach
- Julien Paschalb. 1977BEBelgian actor and musician
- Marcus Paschalb. 1984USplayer of American football
- Fabien Paschalb. 1991FRFrench basketball player (born 1991)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.1K | #5,709 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.1K | #5,290 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.6K | #5,941 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 28 | #73,149 |
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 2 | #11 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Paschal mean, and where does it come from?
- antipope Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- What are other forms of the name Paschal?
- In the etymology graph, Pascual is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Paschal?
- A machine transcription gives /paskəl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Paschal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Paschal in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paschal.
- How common is the name Paschal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,075 people named Paschal in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Paschal compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Paschal is the 234th most common surname of 112,969 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paschalThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Paschal” — the 234th most common surname in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.