Meaning not yet researched.
Pricilla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #880 in 1886.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #880 in 1886; #8,235 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Pricilla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,235 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1886, at #880.
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Pricilla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #880 in 1886 · most girls in one year: 125 (1990).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Pricilla, making it the 8,235th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,897 places from #13,132 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 7 girls named Pricilla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #880, reached in 1886. The most girls given the name in a single year was 125, in 1990. For comparison, it was #9,359 in 2015 and #1,594 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pricilla in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 5 babies. In all, 4,466 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 908 babies named Pricilla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 119 US girls were named Pricilla; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Priscilla (123,040 babies since 1880), Priscila (4,897 babies since 1880) and Pricila (1,130 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Pricilla 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 | 13 | #8,235 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,132 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,961 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,897 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,945 | — | — |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,097 | — | — |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,263 | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,460 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,671 | — | — |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,763 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,359 | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,139 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,961 | — | — |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,806 | — | — |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,333 | — | — |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,942 | — | — |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,925 | — | — |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,112 | — | — |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,848 | — | — |
| 2006 | 70 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 2004 | 70 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,954 | — | — |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1997 | 77 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,303 | — | — |
| 1995 | 68 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 1994 | 114 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 1993 | 93 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1992 | 98 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1991 | 114 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1990 | 125 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1989 | 102 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1988 | 112 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1987 | 78 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1986 | 85 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1985 | 94 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1984 | 80 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 1983 | 88 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1982 | 68 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1980 | 71 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1978 | 54 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,327 | — | — |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,090 | — | — |
| 1975 | 40 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 1973 | 43 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,083 | — | — |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 1970 | 46 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1969 | 41 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,084 | — | — |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 1961 | 40 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1958 | 35 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,334 | — | — |
| 1956 | 32 | #1,924 | — | — |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,264 | — | — |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 1952 | 26 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 1950 | 35 | #1,594 | — | — |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,730 | — | — |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,993 | — | — |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,131 | — | — |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,102 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,062 | — | — |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,103 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,314 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,839 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,275 | — | — |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,340 | — | — |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,685 | — | — |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,670 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,825 | — | — |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,905 | — | — |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,150 | — | — |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,925 | — | — |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,353 | — | — |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,059 | — | — |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,407 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,464 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,822 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,601 | — | — |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,923 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 1886 | 8 | #880 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,026 | — | — |
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).