Pricilla — #13457 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Pricilla

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,453 babies named Pricilla between 1883 and 2024, spanning 142 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pricilla currently holds the #13457 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 125 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pricilla performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 908 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Pricilla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,020 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Pricilla in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pricilla 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 4,453 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.