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Prisca

#7,804 in 2025Girls' name

Former, ancient, old-fashioned

Prisca has been given to 479 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #7,804 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Prisca, 2025

1 in 237,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Prisca: meaning, origin, and history

Former, ancient, old-fashioned

Latin

What Prisca means

Prisca means “former, ancient, old-fashioned”, associated with prīscus.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Latin feminine form of the cognomen Prīscus, from prīscus (“former, ancient, old-fashioned”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Prisca (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Prisca is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 479 girls were recorded with the name Prisca between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,231 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,482 in 2020 to #7,804 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,996 in 2015 to #7,804 in 2025.

How common is Prisca?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,804
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Prisca 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Prisca. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Priscas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Prisca was born before 2005 — so the typical Prisca is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
21.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
479
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Choose a decade

1990s — 21.9% of all recorded uses (105).

Is Prisca 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
−292
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−322
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,192
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.27×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
82.4%
Peak was 2023 (17)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,231
1959

Spellings of Prisca

Prisca is not the most common spelling — Erica is, with 56.8% against Prisca's 0.12%.

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 Prisca is used

Across 1910–2025, Prisca was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,077,877 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 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. Prisca has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Prisca around the world

Where Prisca 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1901–2025
    #3,499
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2013
    #2,840
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1971–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Prisca by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,804
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 322
Best rank ever
#4,231
1959
Peak year
2023
17 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
479
Count in 2025
14

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

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Sibling names for Prisca

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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