Priscila
Priscila was given to 84 girls in 2025, #2,211 among girls’ names; 4,897 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,830 Americans named Priscila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Priscila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Priscila mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Priscila is “a female given name, equivalent to English Priscilla”
/pɾiˈsi.lɐ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Priscila?
#2,211 among girls’ names, 2025
Priscila rose from #2,373 in 2015 to #2,211 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 43.7 to 52.3 per million.
257 babies in 2002, the peak
Priscila peaked in 2002, when 257 girls were given it, #881 among girls’ names. The 84 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #2,211 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,550 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 85 | #2,223 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 81 | #2,313 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 78 | #2,339 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 94 | #1,999 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 95 | #2,029 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 75 | #2,413 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 99 | #2,003 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,261 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,373 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 99 | #2,006 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 110 | #1,844 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,901 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 127 | #1,669 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 152 | #1,487 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 182 | #1,326 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 140 | #1,629 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 172 | #1,395 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 189 | #1,274 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 237 | #1,026 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 184 | #1,214 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 233 | #995 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 257 | #881 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 221 | #972 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 189 | #1,091 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 186 | #1,079 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 155 | #1,199 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 105 | #1,544 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 67 | #2,079 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 79 | #1,808 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 81 | #1,788 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,872 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,258 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 63 | #2,122 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 57 | #2,244 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,352 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 45 | #2,427 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,826 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,604 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,914 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,975 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,122 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,866 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,509 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,681 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,367 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,355 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,874 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,286 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,075 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,420 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,925 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,353 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,565 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,572 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Priscila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Priscila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Priscila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Priscila, and how old are they?
4,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,897 Americans ever recorded as Priscila. The median Priscila alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 7,484 people named Priscila (7,470 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,379 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 131 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 764 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,130 |
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 Priscila born?
The states with the most babies named Priscila are California, Texas and Florida, with 86% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 20 | #1,265 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,173 | 2.0× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,090 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,401 | 0.3× |
Where Priscila is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Priscila is most over-represented in California: since 1964 it was given 2.1 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 Priscila with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 129,618 babies since 1880, Priscila is the second most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 639 babies (13%), again the second most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priscilla | 123,040 | 555 | 1942 |
| Priscila | 4,897 | 84 | 2002 |
| Priscella | 1,031 | under 5 | 1980 |
| Priscillia | 438 | under 5 | 1957 |
| Priscille | 212 | under 5 | 1944 |
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 Priscila
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 Priscila and names like it
- Compare Priscila and PriscillaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sPriscila peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Priscila since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Priscila: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Priscila.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Priscila alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.