Meaning not yet researched.
Priscilla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 555 in 2025. Its best rank was #127 in 1940.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #127 in 1940; #544 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Priscilla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#544 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1940, at #127.
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Priscilla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 555 girls in 2025. Peak: #127 in 1940 · most girls in one year: 1,988 (1942).
In 2025, 555 US girls were named Priscilla, making it the 544th most common girls’ name of the year, up 69 places from #613 in 2024. That is 68 more than the 487 girls named Priscilla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #127, reached in 1940. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,988, in 1942. For comparison, it was #501 in 2015 and #169 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Priscilla in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 26 babies with the name. In all, 123,040 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 18,165 babies named Priscilla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,189 US girls were named Priscilla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 669. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,896 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Priscilla ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #281 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Priscila (4,897 babies since 1880), Pricilla (4,466 babies since 1880) and Pricila (1,130 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Prescilla, Priscella and Prisila are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Cilla, Cissy and Prissy.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Prescilla (1,037), Priscella (1,031), Prisila (787), Precilla (671), Prisilla (640), Prisca (479), Priscillia (438), Pricella (86), Cilla (37), Priscylla (22), Pryscilla (21), Prissila (17), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 20 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 10 | #281 | #521 |
| Arizona | 23 | #314 | #456 |
| California | 93 | #356 | #252 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #364 | — |
| Missouri | 17 | #370 | #824 |
| Utah | 11 | #403 | — |
| Tennessee | 20 | #407 | #504 |
| Minnesota | 12 | #453 | #743 |
| Florida | 41 | #460 | #477 |
| Oregon | 8 | #471 | #510 |
| Indiana | 15 | #471 | #925 |
| Illinois | 22 | #481 | #529 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #493 | #841 |
| Colorado | 11 | #528 | #526 |
| Texas | 61 | #528 | #342 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #557 | #830 |
| Kansas | 6 | #559 | #605 |
| New Jersey | 14 | #560 | #1,033 |
| Georgia | 17 | #639 | #807 |
| New York | 26 | #652 | #454 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #665 | — |
| North Carolina | 15 | #677 | #704 |
| Virginia | 10 | #750 | #836 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #751 | #859 |
| Washington | 8 | #793 | #689 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #910 | #478 |
| Alabama | 5 | #920 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #947 | #881 |
| Maryland | 5 | #962 | #561 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #977 | #510 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,365 | #1,096 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 555 | #544 | — | — |
| 2024 | 487 | #613 | — | — |
| 2023 | 452 | #650 | — | — |
| 2022 | 411 | #714 | — | — |
| 2021 | 478 | #622 | — | — |
| 2020 | 523 | #563 | — | — |
| 2019 | 487 | #618 | — | — |
| 2018 | 535 | #577 | — | — |
| 2017 | 592 | #527 | — | — |
| 2016 | 669 | #476 | — | — |
| 2015 | 636 | #501 | — | — |
| 2014 | 652 | #483 | — | — |
| 2013 | 637 | #479 | — | — |
| 2012 | 632 | #488 | — | — |
| 2011 | 612 | #485 | — | — |
| 2010 | 621 | #486 | — | — |
| 2009 | 772 | #413 | — | — |
| 2008 | 777 | #413 | — | — |
| 2007 | 876 | #374 | — | — |
| 2006 | 874 | #374 | — | — |
| 2005 | 909 | #346 | — | — |
| 2004 | 921 | #347 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,080 | #288 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,090 | #285 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,130 | #279 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,170 | #273 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,291 | #247 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,284 | #239 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,156 | #253 | 6 | #8,980 |
| 1996 | 1,093 | #260 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,307 | #215 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,507 | #197 | 5 | #9,880 |
| 1993 | 1,596 | #182 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,726 | #179 | 5 | #9,456 |
| 1991 | 1,779 | #168 | 14 | #4,174 |
| 1990 | 1,754 | #167 | 7 | #6,975 |
| 1989 | 1,740 | #164 | 8 | #6,082 |
| 1988 | 1,812 | #156 | — | — |
| 1987 | 1,648 | #168 | 11 | #4,172 |
| 1986 | 1,536 | #175 | 8 | #5,217 |
| 1985 | 1,701 | #167 | 14 | #3,344 |
| 1984 | 1,601 | #172 | 8 | #4,863 |
| 1983 | 1,508 | #180 | 10 | #4,076 |
| 1982 | 1,488 | #184 | 6 | #6,201 |
| 1981 | 1,540 | #180 | 5 | #7,016 |
| 1980 | 1,432 | #187 | 7 | #5,365 |
| 1979 | 1,256 | #209 | — | — |
| 1978 | 1,099 | #225 | 6 | #5,594 |
| 1977 | 913 | #272 | — | — |
| 1976 | 789 | #290 | — | — |
| 1975 | 722 | #317 | — | — |
| 1974 | 904 | #280 | 9 | #3,758 |
| 1973 | 826 | #290 | 6 | #4,936 |
| 1972 | 766 | #316 | — | — |
| 1971 | 903 | #304 | — | — |
| 1970 | 936 | #304 | 7 | #4,139 |
| 1969 | 918 | #300 | — | — |
| 1968 | 857 | #302 | — | — |
| 1967 | 871 | #290 | — | — |
| 1966 | 846 | #302 | — | — |
| 1965 | 945 | #284 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,138 | #267 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,248 | #252 | 9 | #3,002 |
| 1962 | 1,211 | #257 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,089 | #278 | 6 | #3,958 |
| 1960 | 1,215 | #252 | 8 | #3,269 |
| 1959 | 1,271 | #243 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,396 | #219 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,449 | #220 | 5 | #4,414 |
| 1956 | 1,350 | #224 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,280 | #226 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,307 | #222 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,379 | #214 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 1952 | 1,547 | #192 | 5 | #4,133 |
| 1951 | 1,590 | #181 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,672 | #169 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,935 | #154 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,847 | #156 | — | — |
| 1947 | 1,933 | #151 | — | — |
| 1946 | 1,659 | #160 | 6 | #3,444 |
| 1945 | 1,412 | #166 | — | — |
| 1944 | 1,576 | #157 | — | — |
| 1943 | 1,834 | #146 | 5 | #3,931 |
| 1942 | 1,988 | #135 | 10 | #2,492 |
| 1941 | 1,971 | #132 | 11 | #2,303 |
| 1940 | 1,970 | #127 | 8 | #2,820 |
| 1939 | 1,542 | #148 | 7 | #3,051 |
| 1938 | 1,026 | #188 | — | — |
| 1937 | 797 | #207 | — | — |
| 1936 | 758 | #215 | — | — |
| 1935 | 774 | #223 | — | — |
| 1934 | 664 | #240 | — | — |
| 1933 | 676 | #235 | — | — |
| 1932 | 728 | #225 | — | — |
| 1931 | 749 | #221 | — | — |
| 1930 | 824 | #213 | 5 | #4,429 |
| 1929 | 842 | #214 | — | — |
| 1928 | 887 | #212 | — | — |
| 1927 | 898 | #212 | 5 | #4,666 |
| 1926 | 834 | #220 | — | — |
| 1925 | 830 | #224 | — | — |
| 1924 | 861 | #224 | — | — |
| 1923 | 811 | #227 | 6 | #4,146 |
| 1922 | 761 | #235 | — | — |
| 1921 | 723 | #248 | — | — |
| 1920 | 637 | #260 | — | — |
| 1919 | 557 | #269 | — | — |
| 1918 | 518 | #275 | — | — |
| 1917 | 456 | #288 | — | — |
| 1916 | 440 | #286 | — | — |
| 1915 | 392 | #292 | — | — |
| 1914 | 279 | #317 | — | — |
| 1913 | 241 | #304 | — | — |
| 1912 | 205 | #319 | — | — |
| 1911 | 148 | #327 | — | — |
| 1910 | 142 | #324 | — | — |
| 1909 | 99 | #371 | — | — |
| 1908 | 106 | #347 | — | — |
| 1907 | 117 | #321 | — | — |
| 1906 | 107 | #326 | — | — |
| 1905 | 88 | #361 | — | — |
| 1904 | 80 | #368 | — | — |
| 1903 | 79 | #359 | — | — |
| 1902 | 79 | #364 | — | — |
| 1901 | 72 | #359 | — | — |
| 1900 | 110 | #323 | — | — |
| 1899 | 59 | #380 | — | — |
| 1898 | 71 | #371 | — | — |
| 1897 | 73 | #343 | — | — |
| 1896 | 72 | #344 | — | — |
| 1895 | 63 | #352 | — | — |
| 1894 | 59 | #366 | — | — |
| 1893 | 51 | #382 | — | — |
| 1892 | 50 | #380 | — | — |
| 1891 | 51 | #350 | — | — |
| 1890 | 40 | #404 | — | — |
| 1889 | 39 | #391 | — | — |
| 1888 | 56 | #324 | — | — |
| 1887 | 51 | #301 | — | — |
| 1886 | 42 | #331 | — | — |
| 1885 | 32 | #362 | — | — |
| 1884 | 40 | #314 | — | — |
| 1883 | 27 | #352 | — | — |
| 1882 | 35 | #298 | — | — |
| 1881 | 27 | #309 | — | — |
| 1880 | 26 | #315 | — | — |
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).