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Priscille

Girls' name

Form of Priscilla

Priscille has been given to 212 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1944, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Priscille, 2007

1 in 800,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Priscille: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Priscilla

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Priscille means

Priscille is a form of Priscilla.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Priscille is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /pʁi.sil/ for Priscille.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Priscille → 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, 212 girls were recorded with the name Priscille between 1923 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1944; its best national rank was #2,012 in 1944.

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 Priscille?

Priscille had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 800,000
5 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
554,207 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Priscille 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 2007 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 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Priscille. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Priscilles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Priscille was born before 1944 — so the typical Priscille is around 81 today.

Median birth year
1944
About 81 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
59.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
43
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1940s — 59.0% of all recorded uses (125).

Is Priscille 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1944 (19)
Years since peak
81
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,012
1944

Spellings of Priscille

Priscille is not the most common spelling — Priscilla is, with 90.9% against Priscille's 0.16%.

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 Priscille is used

Across 1910–2025, Priscille was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 12,613 across all states with data. It was least common in New Hampshire (1 in 50,000).

212 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 8,333
  2. 2New Hampshire1 in 50,000

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

Priscille around the world

Where Priscille 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
    1952–2025
    #1,579
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #2,538
    in 2010

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

Priscille 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
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Best rank ever
#2,012
1944
Peak year
1944
19 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
212
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Priscille

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

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Sibling names for Priscille

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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