Priscila

Where Priscila comes from

Priscila 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. 1964
    First appearance
    #6,009 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1983
    Priscila Perales born
    Mexican actress and actor
  3. 1983
    Priscila Fantin born
    Brazilian actress
  4. 2002
    Peak, #880
    257 babies named Priscila — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,666.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Priscila Fantin · Brazilian actress, born 1983
  • Priscila Perales · Mexican actress and actor, born 1983
  • Priscila Tommy · Vanuatuan table tennis player (* 1991), born 1991
  • Priscila Daroit · Brazilian volleyball player, born 1988
  • Priscila Machado · Brazilian model, Miss Brasil 2011, born 1986

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.