Prissy

Girls' name

Former, ancient, old-fashioned, through Priscilla

Prissy has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1954. 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 1959, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Prissy, 1968

1 in 676,000

Prissy over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Prissy: meaning, origin, and history

Former, ancient, old-fashioned, through Priscilla

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Prissy means

Prissy belongs to the name family reached through Prissy → Priscilla. Its meaning is “former, ancient, old-fashioned”.

Origin, language, and formation

Prissy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Priscilla.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 28 girls were recorded with the name Prissy between 1954 and 1968. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1959; its best national rank was #5,433 in 1959.

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.

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How common is Prissy?

Prissy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1968, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1968: 1 in 676,000; 5 of 3,378,301 births
Among girls only: 1 in 328,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1968: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 468,333 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Prissy 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 1968 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 468,333 children born in 1968 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Prissy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Prissys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Prissy was born before 1963 — so the typical Prissy is around 62 today.

Median birth year: 1963; About 62 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 57.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 28; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 57.1% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Prissy 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: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1959 (7)
Years since peak: 66; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,433; 1959

Spellings of Prissy

Prissy is not the most common spelling — Kristy is, with 66.2% against Prissy's 0.03%.

Kristy66.2%70,524
Cristy7.7%8,200
Missy5.4%5,776
Chrissy4.2%4,459
Prisha2.8%3,014
Brissa2.6%2,793
Crissy2.4%2,592
Arissa2.3%2,491

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 Prissy is used

Across 1910–2025, Prissy was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 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. Prissy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Prissy 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: —
Best rank ever: #5,433; 1959
Peak year: 1959; 7 that year
First recorded: 1954
Last recorded: 1968
All-time count: 28
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Prissy

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

Prinsha Priella Pricie Keissy Pritha Primm Price Nissy Princie Princy Prianna Princesse Prianka Sossy Priyah Prisma Pritika Blessy Flossy Priyal Prisca Chassy Prithika Prina

Sibling names for Prissy

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

For a sister

Meg Andra Tamela Robbin Jannette Joellen Gerri Debby

For a brother

Curtiss Russ Nicky Dwain Stan Lindsay Cliff Von

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