Prescilla — girls' name

What the Data Says About Prescilla

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,037 babies named Prescilla between 1919 and 2011, spanning 93 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Prescilla currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 28 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Prescilla performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 193 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Prescilla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Mexico, which accounts for 141 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Prescilla in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Prescilla 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 1,037 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.