Priscila
#2,194 for girls in 2025, 84 births
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 257 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,897since 1964
Priscila over time
Rank among girls' names. Priscila has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,194 | 84 |
| 2024 | #2,533 | 70 |
| 2023 | #2,210 | 85 |
| 2022 | #2,295 | 81 |
| 2021 | #2,327 | 78 |
| 2020 | #1,991 | 94 |
| 2019 | #2,011 | 95 |
| 2018 | #2,404 | 75 |
| 2017 | #1,989 | 99 |
| 2016 | #2,247 | 85 |
| 2015 | #2,351 | 78 |
| 2014 | #1,997 | 99 |
| 2013 | #1,834 | 110 |
| 2012 | #1,886 | 106 |
| 2011 | #1,666 | 127 |
| 2010 | #1,481 | 152 |
| 2009 | #1,322 | 182 |
| 2008 | #1,620 | 140 |
| 2007 | #1,392 | 172 |
| 2006 | #1,268 | 189 |
| 2005 | #1,025 | 237 |
| 2004 | #1,213 | 184 |
| 2003 | #990 | 233 |
| 2002 | #880 | 257 |
| 2001 | #973 | 221 |
| 2000 | #1,091 | 189 |
| 1999 | #1,077 | 186 |
| 1998 | #1,195 | 155 |
| 1997 | #1,530 | 105 |
| 1996 | #2,058 | 67 |
| 1995 | #1,802 | 79 |
| 1994 | #1,786 | 81 |
| 1993 | #1,865 | 76 |
| 1992 | #2,239 | 59 |
| 1991 | #2,111 | 63 |
| 1990 | #2,234 | 57 |
| 1989 | #2,338 | 50 |
| 1988 | #2,419 | 45 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 1986 | #2,564 | 38 |
| 1985 | #2,860 | 32 |
| 1984 | #2,915 | 30 |
| 1983 | #3,065 | 27 |
| 1982 | #3,780 | 21 |
| 1981 | #3,436 | 24 |
| 1980 | #4,517 | 16 |
| 1979 | #4,231 | 17 |
| 1978 | #3,283 | 23 |
| 1977 | #3,761 | 19 |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 |
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| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
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| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Priscila! It came in at #6,009, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1965–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Priscila
- 339 spots since 2024 (#2,533 → #2,194)
- 203 spots since 2020 (#1,991 → #2,194)
- 157 spots since 2015 (#2,351 → #2,194)
- Biggest jump: 118 spots in 2001 (#1,091 → #973)
- Biggest drop: 223 spots in 2004 (#990 → #1,213)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 2002 at #880 (257 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2001–2003
- Highest: 1 in 6,992 girls born in 2002 were named Priscila (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,134 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 40.9% of all girls named Priscila (2,004) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11 | #6,009 (1964) | #6,407 |
| 1970s | 118 | #3,283 (1978) | #5,002 |
| 1980s | 318 | #2,338 (1989) | #3,067 |
| 1990s | 928 | #1,077 (1999) | #1,790 |
| 2000s | 2,004 | #880 (2002) | #1,177 |
| 2010s | 1,026 | #1,481 (2010) | #1,987 |
| 2020s | 492 | #1,991 (2020) | #2,258 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Priscila in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
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1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 13,507 of them was named Priscila, which outranked 92.1% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,605Rosalyn141
- #1,605Shamya141
- #1,605Shianne141
- #1,620Priscila140
- #1,620Anaiah140
- #1,620Annamarie140
- #1,620Farah140
- #1,631Kaela139
- #1,631Mabel139
- #1,631Vianey139
Tied with 10 names at #1,620; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.