girls:
4.4k births since 1883
#2554 (55th percentile)
overall:
4.4k births since 1883
#4101 (47th percentile)
The name Pricilla is the #4,101 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,445 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 47.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,554 (55.3% percentile) for all time with 4,445 births since 1883.
Pricilla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (first recorded for girls in 1883). Birth data for Pricilla is available in 116 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Pricilla reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 13.9% percentile (ranked #742) with 61 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 61 births per million (ranked 13.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2002, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Pricilla ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 13.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pricilla".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Pricilla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.3% confident that Pricilla is pronounced as prih-SIH-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is pree-SEE-luh, at 13.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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