Precious — #2554 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Precious

The Social Security Administration has registered 19,342 babies named Precious between 1897 and 2024, spanning 128 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Precious currently holds the #2554 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 746 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Precious performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 6,305 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Precious shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,141 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Precious in 39 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Precious in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 19,342 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.