Prescilla
Prescilla is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 199128 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1919
- 1,037people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,037 girls have been named Prescilla in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 28 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 28 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1977, and the 1990s alone account for 19%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Prescilla | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | |
| 1920s | 32 | |
| 1930s | 68 | |
| 1940s | 140 | |
| 1950s | 118 | |
| 1960s | 94 | |
| 1970s | 93 | |
| 1980s | 172 | |
| 1990s | 193 | |
| 2000s | 107 | |
| 2010s | 14 |
In 1991, its biggest year
Prescilla was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1991 were Ashley, Jessica, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Prescilla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jacquelynepeak 1961
- Janettpeak 1991
- Jacquelynnpeak 1993
- Sulemapeak 1996
- Jacqualynpeak 1950
- Carlynpeak 1992
- Janiecepeak 1993
- Fredrickapeak 1991
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.