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Priscilla

The name Priscilla peaked for boys at #2303 in 1941. Priscilla is also used for girls, ranking #544 in 2025.

The name Priscilla is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "ancient".

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Despite her somewhat prissy, puritanical air, Priscilla has managed to stay widely used for well over a century -- it reached as high as Number 127 in 1940 -- appreciated for its delicacy and solid history.
 A New Testament name, it was Priscilla with whom the apostle Paul stayed while spreading the gospel in Corinth. It was common in the ancient Roman world and later was a favorite of the seventeenth century Puritans. Priscilla Mullins (Alden), remembered for her co-starring role in Longfellow's poem The Courtship of Miles Standish, making Priscilla one of the perfect <a href="https://nameberry.com/list/645/delicious-thanksgiving-names">Thanksgiving baby names</a>. There was also a sympathetic Priscilla in Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance.
 The most conspicuous contemporary bearer of the name is Priscilla Presley, and it's what J. R. R. Tolkien named his only daughter.
 If you find the nickname Prissy too prissy, you could use the British-inflected Cilla.

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The name Priscilla is currently ranked #544 in U.S. births. and peaked for girls at #127 in 1940. The name is most popular in PRISCILLA, PRISCILLA, and PRISCILLA. Priscilla is occasionally used for boys in 1997.

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