Percilla

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Percilla has been given to 567 babies in the U.S. since 1907. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1949, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Percilla, 2011

1 in 732,000

Percilla over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Percilla: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Percilla means

Percilla is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Percilla is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 567 girls were recorded with the name Percilla between 1907 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1949; its best national rank was #2,116 in 1949.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Percilla?

Percilla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011: 1 in 732,000; 5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only: 1 in 352,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 507,099 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Percilla sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Percilla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Percillas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Percilla was born before 1957 — so the typical Percilla is around 68 today.

Median birth year: 1957; About 68 years old
Biggest decade: 1950s; 20.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 20.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 372; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1950s — 20.5% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Percilla rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1949 (22)
Years since peak: 76; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,116; 1949

Spellings of Percilla

Percilla is not the most common spelling — Pricilla is, with 66.3% against Percilla's 8.4%.

Pricilla66.3%4,466
Prescilla15.4%1,037
Precilla10.0%671
Percilla8.4%567

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Percilla is used

Across 1910–2025, Percilla was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,836,876 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2South Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Percilla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Percilla by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,116; 1949
Peak year: 1949; 22 that year
First recorded: 1907
Last recorded: 2011
All-time count: 567
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Percilla

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Pernella Perpetua Yzabella Permelia Karmella Manuella Auriella Mikaella Giabella Carmilla Ezabella Esabella Persis Maryella Rafaella Perrin Micaella Kimbella Persia Markella Perrie Michella Erabella Gianella

Sibling names for Percilla

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Roseanna Karon Carlotta Mickey Roseanne Delois Janey Kathlyn

For a brother

Donn Lanny Williams Felton Rogers Ivory Artis Galen

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