Pricila
Pricila was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,512 among girls’ names; 1,130 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Pricila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pricila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pricila?
#14,512 among girls’ names, 2025
Pricila fell from #7,898 in 2015 to #14,512 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 3.7 per million.
82 babies in 2002, the peak
Pricila peaked in 2002, when 82 girls were given it, #2,091 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,512 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,891 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,837 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,556 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,018 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,898 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,408 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,950 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,078 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,219 | 19.9 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 38 | #4,012 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,238 | 28.3 |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,078 | 29.6 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,120 | 29.1 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,843 | 32.6 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,894 | 30.8 |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,416 | 38.7 |
| 2003 | 79 | #2,196 | 43.2 |
| 2002 | 82 | #2,091 | 45.6 |
| 2001 | 78 | #2,118 | 43.3 |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,361 | 36.3 |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,690 | 29.3 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,833 | 26.6 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,406 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,973 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,525 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,176 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,864 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,932 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,331 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,757 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,477 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,158 | 7.3 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,275 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,388 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,239 | 5.3 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,004 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,013 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,639 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pricila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pricila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pricila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pricila, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,130 Americans ever recorded as Pricila. The median Pricila alive today is 23 years old; half are between 18 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,408 people named Pricila (1,404 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,101 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 172 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 864 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 75 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Pricila born?
The states with the most babies named Pricila are California, Texas and Arizona, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 301 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 171 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Arizona | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 8 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Nevada | 7 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Pricila is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Pricila is most over-represented in California: since 1980 it was given 1.9 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 Pricila with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Pricila?
Pricila is a less common spelling of Priscilla: SSA has recorded 1,130 Pricila and 123,040 Priscilla since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 128,722 babies since 1880, Pricila is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 574 babies (1.0%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pricila
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Pricila and names like it
- Compare Pricila and PriscillaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sPricila peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pricila since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Pricila.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Pricila alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.