How Many People Are Named Priscilla?
people named Priscilla are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 3,783 people in the US has this name
Based on 123,040 babies named Priscilla in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
1,998 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Latin, BiblicalRoman name, a diminutive of PRISCA. In Acts in the New Testament Paul lived with Priscilla (also known as Prisca) and her husband Aquila in Corinth for a while. It has been used as an English given name since the Protestant Reformation, being popular with the Puritans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used it in his poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish' (1858).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Priscilla (99.8%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Priscilla alive today is about 46 years old, and 41% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 29 and 67 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Priscilla first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1942, to 1,998 babies. In 2025, 555 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Priscilla has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #127, in 1940. In 2025 it ranked #544.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #544 |
| Best rank | #127 (1940) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #147 in the 1940s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Priscilla alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Priscilla were born in California than in any other state: about 17,643 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Priscilla was given 3.4 times as often in Maine, 3.1 times in New Mexico and 2.9 times in New Hampshire.
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