girls:
167 births since 1979
#5549 (3rd percentile)
overall:
167 births since 1979
#7572 (2nd percentile)
The name Princessa is the #7,572 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 167 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 2.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,549 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 167 births since 1979.
Princessa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (first recorded for girls in 1979). Birth data for Princessa is available in 16 out of the 36 years between 1979 and 2014. 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, Princessa reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #905) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Princessa".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Princessa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.3% confident that Princessa is pronounced as prihn-SEH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PRIHN-seh-suh, at 23.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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