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Pricilla

#8,233 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Pricilla has been given to 4,466 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #8,233 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 125 recorded.

Babies named Pricilla, 2025

1 in 255,000

Pricilla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pricilla: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pricilla means

Pricilla is a given name.

The naming story behind Pricilla

Wikidata records Pricilla as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q115315851, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,466 girls were recorded with the name Pricilla between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 125 in 1990; its best national rank was #880 in 1886.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,092 in 2020 to #8,233 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,354 in 2015 to #8,233 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.

How common is Pricilla?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,233
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pricilla 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pricilla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pricillas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pricilla was born before 1986 — so the typical Pricilla is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,894
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (908).

Is Pricilla 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
+4,894
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,859
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,121
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.4%
Peak was 1990 (125)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#880
1886

Spellings of Pricilla

Pricilla is not the most common spelling — Priscilla is, with 86.3% against Pricilla's 3.1%.

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 Pricilla is used

Across 1910–2025, Pricilla was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 39,770 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 16,667
  2. 2Texas1 in 16,667
  3. 3Arizona1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in —
  7. 7Colorado1 in —
  8. 8Georgia1 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. Pricilla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pricilla around the world

Where Pricilla 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.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • Ireland
    1982–1982
    #523
    in 1982
  • France
    1973–2007
    #6,347
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1994–1994
    #2,260
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1973–1990
    #691
    in 1990

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Pricilla

People whose public names include Pricilla, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Pricilla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,233
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,859
Best rank ever
#880
1886
Peak year
1990
125 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,466
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Pricilla

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

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Names with a curve like Pricilla

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Pricilla, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Pricilla

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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