Prescilla
Recorded 1919–2011 · United States
Prescilla was most popular in 1991, when 28 American babies were given the name — ranking #5,965 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,037 people named Prescilla.
Prescilla over time
How old is the name Prescilla?
Prescilla first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1919, which makes it about 106 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 83 of the 107 years since. It was last recorded in 2011.
How many people are named Prescilla?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,037 American births named Prescilla between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 848 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Prescilla in 2025?
Prescilla was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Prescilla getting more or less popular?
Prescilla is out of use. It averaged 7 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Prescilla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Prescilla is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 1,037 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Prescilla?
Roughly 848 Americans named Prescilla are alive today — 82% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 43 years old, and half are between 32 and 65. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Prescilla is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org