Priscilla
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Priscilla
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 Thanksgiving baby names. 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.
Priscilla is also given to boys.
Pronounced prih-SIL-uh.
As of October 2026, Priscilla ranked #544 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #127 in 1940, Nameberry popularity #462.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #483 | 652 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #501 | 635 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #476 | 669 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #526 | 592 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #577 | 535 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #618 | 487 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #562 | 523 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #625 | 477 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #713 | 411 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #652 | 451 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #615 | 484 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #544 | 555 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Priscilla for girls
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Priscilla on lists
Famous Priscillas
- PriscillaGirl
Biblical missionary married to Aquila
- Priscilla Mullins AldenGirl
wife of American Plymouth colonist John Alden
- (Elizabeth) Priscilla Cooper TylerGirl
acting First Lady of the U.S. as daughter,in,law of President John Tyler
- Priscilla Jane Owens (1829Girl
1899), hymnist
- Priscilla LexandroGirl
French,American daughter of Khloe Lexandro
- Priscilla Ann PresleyGirl
American actress; ex,wife of Elvis
- Priscilla Marie "CeCe" WinansGirl
American gospel singer
- Priscilla MorrillGirl
American actress
- Priscilla Natalie AhnGirl
American singer/songwriter
- Priscilla ChanGirl
American physician; wife of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
- Priscilla Richman OwenGirl
U.S. federal judge
- Priscilla MartelGirl
American baker and cookbook author
- Priscilla LaneGirl
American singer/actress of The Lane Sisters
- Priscilla FlorencioGirl
Brazilian pop singer
- Priscilla LopezGirl
American singer and actress
- Préscillia "Priscilla" BettiGirl
French singer and actress
- Priscilla Marie PointerGirl
American actress
- Priscilla KembleGirl
English stage actress
- Priscilla HortonGirl
English stage actress
- Priscilla Chan (WaiGirl
han), Hong Kong pop singer
- Priscilla BarnesGirl
American actress
- Priscilla "Cilla" RobertsonGirl
daughter of Jep and Jessica Robertson of reality TV's "Duck Dynasty"
- Priscilla Lee TaylorGirl
American model, actress & Playboy Playmate
Priscilla in pop culture
- "The Adventures of PriscillaGirl
Queen of the Desert," 1994 Australian film
- PriscillaGirl
Jean Henrietta "Tulip" O'Hare, character in DC Universe's "Preacher"
- PriscillaGirl
character in anime "Claymore"
- Priscilla ParsonsGirl
a bully in the "St Clare" book series by Enid Blyton
- PriscillaGirl
"Mrs. Jellaby's maid, given to drink" in Bleak House (1854) by Charles Dickens
- Priscilla MoodyGirl
Zenobia's pale but interesting younger sister in "The Blithedale Romance" (1852) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Priscilla SeftonGirl
a Methodist preacher's daughter; wife of Richard Orchardson in "God and the Man" (1881) by Robert Buchanan
- PriscillaGirl
song by Sea Wolf
- Priscilla McAlistairGirl
from Paul Shapera's musical "Dolls of New Albion"