Presious — girls' name
43 babies named Presious in U.S. Social Security records since 1986, with the highest year being 1992. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
47% of everyone ever named Presious was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Presious in 1992 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Presious
The Social Security Administration has registered 43 babies named Presious between 1986 and 2006, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Presious currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2006. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Presious performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 20 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Presious shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Presious 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 43 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.
Presious at a glance
Last recorded 2006Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Presious popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2006–1986
- Peak year (1992)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 21 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2006.
43 total births across 21 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1992 with 8 births in a single year.
Presious by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 20 births that decade — 47% of Presious's all-time total
Presious decade highlights
- Peak decade 20 births
- Runner-up 13 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Presious's strongest decade
20 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 47% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1986–2006 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.