Priscillia
Priscillia was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 438 Americans have been recorded with it between 1923 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Priscillia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Priscillia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,034, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1957, the peak
Priscillia peaked in 1957, when 14 girls were given it, #3,263 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #17,034 | 3.1 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,444 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,913 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,141 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,052 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,834 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,985 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,526 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,380 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,809 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 5 | #11,509 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,005 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,780 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,925 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,555 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,264 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,779 | 7.2 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,954 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,421 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,469 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,960 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,414 | 6.0 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,958 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,695 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,897 | 4.2 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,669 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,561 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,970 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,732 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,290 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,076 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,432 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,426 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,263 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,850 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,683 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,560 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,507 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,731 | 5.4 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,566 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,839 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 13 | #3,025 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,847 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,428 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,738 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,748 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,028 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,494 | 6.6 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,279 | 4.3 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,926 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,552 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Priscillia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Priscillia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Priscillia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Priscillia, and how old are they?
An estimated 356 Americans named Priscillia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 44 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 276 people named Priscillia (273 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 372 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 129,618 babies since 1880, Priscillia is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 639 babies recorded by SSA was a Priscillia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| 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 Priscillia
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 Priscillia and names like it
- Compare Priscillia and PriscillaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sPriscillia peaked in 1957.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Priscillia.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Priscillia alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.