Prescilla
Prescilla was last recorded in 2011, when 7 babies were given it; 1,037 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Prescilla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Prescilla?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,481, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1991, the peak
Prescilla peaked in 1991, when 28 girls were given it, #3,782 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #14,481 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,609 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,778 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,011 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,616 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,440 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,312 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,501 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,892 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,324 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 12 | #8,598 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,524 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,368 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,990 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,960 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,980 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,524 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,224 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,757 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,187 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,782 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 19 | #5,002 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,082 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,792 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,531 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,489 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,021 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,119 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,571 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,987 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,964 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,156 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,828 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,613 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,580 | 9.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,730 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,455 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,468 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,470 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,245 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,422 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,419 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,167 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,537 | 6.1 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,744 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,044 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,197 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,949 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,175 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,384 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,071 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,130 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,871 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,849 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,299 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,121 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,898 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,730 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,070 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,869 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,598 | 9.4 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,675 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,269 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,613 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,079 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,099 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,424 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,393 | 11.1 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,361 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,083 | 14.0 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,381 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,097 | 14.5 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,722 | 6.6 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,542 | 11.4 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,064 | 8.9 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,243 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,104 | 4.4 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,977 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,193 | 5.9 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,925 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,550 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,356 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,699 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Prescilla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Prescilla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Prescilla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Prescilla, and how old are they?
An estimated 834 Americans named Prescilla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 32 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 841 people named Prescilla (836 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 886 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Prescilla born?
The states with the most babies named Prescilla are New Mexico, California and Texas, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Mexico is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 141 | not ranked | 20.4× |
| California | 122 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 56 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Prescilla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Prescilla is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1919 it was given 20.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Prescilla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Prescilla
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jacquelyne | 3,184 | |
| Jacqualyn | 1,053 | |
| Jacquelynn | 5,095 | |
| Sulema | 2,008 | |
| Carlyn | 4,373 | |
| Janett | 3,542 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Prescilla and names like it
- Compare Prescilla and JacquelyneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sPrescilla peaked in 1991.
- New Mexico’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Prescilla since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Prescilla.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Prescilla alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with PMost given first.