Prisila — girls' name

What the Data Says About Prisila

The Social Security Administration has registered 787 babies named Prisila between 1978 and 2020, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Prisila currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 62 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Prisila performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 458 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Prisila shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 206 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Prisila in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Prisila 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 787 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.