Priscille
Priscille is a name with a single cultural origin: French.
- French
Meaning & Origin of Priscille
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Priscille is a name with a single cultural origin: French.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- French
The Story of Priscille
Priscille first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1923, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1944: 19 births, good for #1,967 nationwide. About 59% of every Priscille on record arrived during the 1940s, its defining decade. Priscille last appeared in the published SSA data in 2007, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 212 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1920s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Priscille
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About the name Priscille
Priscille is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1923 and has accumulated 212 births in the dataset. Priscille's peak popularity came in 1944 when it ranked #1,967. Use the chart and map above to compare Priscille's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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