Meaning not yet researched.
Precious: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 51 in 2025. Its best rank was #377 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #377 in 1996; #3,158 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Precious in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,158 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #377.
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Precious: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 51 girls in 2025. Peak: #377 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 746 (2001).
In 2025, 51 US girls were named Precious, making it the 3,158th most common girls’ name of the year, down 577 places from #2,581 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 69 girls named Precious in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #377, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 746, in 2001. For comparison, it was #1,640 in 2015 and #2,174 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Precious in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1897 with 6 babies. In all, 19,540 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 6,320 babies named Precious.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 842 US girls were named Precious; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 113. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,515 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jewel (46,728 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Prescious, Presious and Precyous are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Prescious (76), Presious (43), Precyous (5), Precius (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Precious in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,158 | — | — |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,549 | 6 | #11,911 |
| 2022 | 87 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 2021 | 84 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,847 | — | — |
| 2019 | 90 | #2,102 | 6 | #11,789 |
| 2018 | 113 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 2017 | 111 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 2016 | 109 | #1,881 | 6 | #11,793 |
| 2015 | 131 | #1,640 | 5 | #13,553 |
| 2014 | 133 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 2013 | 145 | #1,522 | 5 | #13,578 |
| 2012 | 157 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 2011 | 199 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 2010 | 268 | #957 | — | — |
| 2009 | 367 | #774 | 5 | #13,975 |
| 2008 | 375 | #784 | — | — |
| 2007 | 501 | #601 | — | — |
| 2006 | 534 | #551 | — | — |
| 2005 | 529 | #544 | — | — |
| 2004 | 512 | #560 | 5 | #12,748 |
| 2003 | 553 | #516 | 5 | #12,274 |
| 2002 | 689 | #423 | 7 | #9,147 |
| 2001 | 746 | #392 | — | — |
| 2000 | 648 | #436 | — | — |
| 1999 | 687 | #406 | — | — |
| 1998 | 741 | #381 | — | — |
| 1997 | 639 | #410 | — | — |
| 1996 | 703 | #377 | — | — |
| 1995 | 620 | #415 | — | — |
| 1994 | 631 | #399 | 7 | #7,549 |
| 1993 | 594 | #423 | — | — |
| 1992 | 569 | #444 | — | — |
| 1991 | 574 | #446 | — | — |
| 1990 | 547 | #452 | 8 | #6,265 |
| 1989 | 496 | #480 | 8 | #6,079 |
| 1988 | 525 | #433 | 8 | #5,595 |
| 1987 | 427 | #502 | 5 | #7,838 |
| 1986 | 418 | #503 | — | — |
| 1985 | 377 | #530 | — | — |
| 1984 | 278 | #634 | — | — |
| 1983 | 268 | #642 | — | — |
| 1982 | 271 | #659 | — | — |
| 1981 | 246 | #692 | 6 | #6,051 |
| 1980 | 249 | #692 | 7 | #5,364 |
| 1979 | 188 | #831 | — | — |
| 1978 | 140 | #989 | — | — |
| 1977 | 132 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1976 | 88 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1975 | 106 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1974 | 89 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 1973 | 66 | #1,457 | 6 | #4,933 |
| 1972 | 87 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1971 | 65 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 1970 | 59 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,339 | — | — |
| 1968 | 54 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1967 | 38 | #1,915 | — | — |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 1965 | 37 | #1,906 | — | — |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,204 | — | — |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,704 | — | — |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,218 | — | — |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,129 | — | — |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,599 | — | — |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,698 | — | — |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,787 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,388 | — | — |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,070 | — | — |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,611 | — | — |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,383 | — | — |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,330 | — | — |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1941 | 18 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,161 | — | — |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,191 | — | — |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,171 | — | — |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,050 | — | — |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,112 | — | — |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,548 | — | — |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,597 | — | — |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,809 | 5 | #4,416 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,267 | — | — |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,551 | 5 | #4,664 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,983 | 6 | #4,081 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,836 | 5 | #4,743 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,149 | — | — |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,776 | — | — |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,692 | 5 | #4,657 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,186 | 5 | #4,658 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,185 | 6 | #3,883 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,624 | 5 | #4,361 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,860 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,080 | — | — |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,760 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,478 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #2,011 | — | — |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,171 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,885 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,519 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).