I’ve posted about plenty of babies named after the boats on which they were born (e.g. Australis, Burgess, El Nil, Jesse Roper, Numidian) so here’s something new — a baby born on a boat, but named after the holiday on which she was born:
La Champagne, like the Cedric, had a pleasant voyage and reported, as her principal contribution to the news of the day, the fact that on Easter Sunday there had been born on board the liner a little girl to Mme. Boyer, one of the cabin passengers. The baby was named Pascaline.
A much better choice than “Champagne,” certainly.
Pascaline is related to the adjective paschal, which refers to both Passover and Easter. Historically, many babies born around the time of Easter/Passover were given some form of this name.
Source: “Liners’ Good Weather.” New York Times 20 Apr. 1903: 3.