Pricilla

Where Pricilla comes from

Pricilla hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1883
    First appearance
    #920 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #828
    8 babies named Pricilla — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1978
    Pricilla de Oliveira Azevedo born
    Brazilian police officer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Pricilla de Oliveira Azevedo · Brazilian police officer, born 1978
  • Pricilla Nanyang · South Sudanese politician

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.