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Pricila

#14,512 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Priscilla

Pricila has been given to 1,130 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #14,512 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 82 recorded.

Babies named Pricila, 2025

1 in 553,000

Pricila over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pricila: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Priscilla

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pricila means

Pricila is a form of Priscilla.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Pricila is used in Portuguese (Brazilian).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Pricila → Priscilla. The family’s meaning is “former, ancient, old-fashioned”, recorded in English with the source elements prīscus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Priscilla.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,130 girls were recorded with the name Pricila between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 82 in 2002; its best national rank was #2,091 in 2002.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,898 in 2015 to #14,512 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pricila?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,512
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pricila 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pricila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pricilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pricila was born before 2003 — so the typical Pricila is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
58.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,130
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Choose a decade

2000s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (659).

Is Pricila 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
−6,614
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.3%
Peak was 2002 (82)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,091
2002

Spellings of Pricila

Pricila is not the most common spelling — Priscilla is, with 70.0% against Pricila's 0.64%.

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 Pricila is used

Across 1910–2025, Pricila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 87,522 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 100,000
  3. 3Nevada1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 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. Pricila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pricila around the world

Where Pricila ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2001–2001
    #5,307
    in 2001

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Pricila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,512
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,091
2002
Peak year
2002
82 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,130
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Pricila

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

PrisilaPriscilaPrimrosePriyankaPriscaPrishaPrismaPrincesaMikailaKalilaYamilaPricillaTehilaKhalilaNabilaAquilaPrissilaPrisillaDahlilaLudmilaAlailaKhamilaSuhailaMakaila

Sibling names for Pricila

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

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