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Priscila

#2,211 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Priscilla

Priscila has been given to 4,897 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #2,211 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 257 recorded.

Babies named Priscila, 2025

1 in 39,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Priscila: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Priscilla

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Priscila means

Priscila is a form of Priscilla.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Priscila is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Priscilla.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Priscila is pronounced /pɾiˈsi.lɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,897 girls were recorded with the name Priscila between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 257 in 2002; its best national rank was #881 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,999 in 2020 to #2,211 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,373 in 2015 to #2,211 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 Priscila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,500
84 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 19,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,211
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,357 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Priscila 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,357 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Priscila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Priscilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Priscila was born before 2004 — so the typical Priscila is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,897
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (2,004).

Is Priscila 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
+339
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−212
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+162
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.7%
Peak was 2002 (257)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#881
2002

Spellings of Priscila

Priscila is not the most common spelling — Priscilla is, with 89.8% against Priscila's 3.6%.

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 Priscila is used

Across 2016–2025, Priscila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 15,405 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 10,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 11,111
  3. 3Florida1 in 20,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 33,333
  5. 5Maryland1 in 33,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7New York1 in 50,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

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.

Priscila around the world

Where Priscila 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
    2005–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • France
    1979–2012
    #6,756
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Priscila

People whose public names include Priscila, 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.

Priscila in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Priscila. Linked forms have their own page here.

Priscilla

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Priscila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,211
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 212
Best rank ever
#881
2002
Peak year
2002
257 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,897
Count in 2025
84

Names similar to Priscila

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

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Names with a curve like Priscila

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

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Sibling names for Priscila

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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