girls:
121.7k births since 1880
#317 (94th percentile)
boys:
244 births since 1923
#4342 (5th percentile)
overall:
122k births since 1880
#595 (92nd percentile)
The name Priscilla is the #595 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 121,987 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #317 (94.5% percentile) for all time with 121,743 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,342 (5.3% percentile) for all time with 244 births since 1923.
Priscilla has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1923 for boys).
The name Priscilla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Priscilla reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 80.9% percentile (ranked #155) with 942 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 1,668 births per million (ranked 78.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Priscilla ranks #543 for girls (42.7% percentile) with 255 births per million, which is 15.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Priscilla reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #686) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Priscilla".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Priscilla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.5% confident that Priscilla is pronounced as prih-SIH-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is prih-SKIH-luh, at 9.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like P R IH0 S IH1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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