Given name
Priscille
Priscille is a feminine given name from Latin. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1923. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Priscille through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 212
- 0 boys · 212 girls
- Most popular year
- 1944
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 19 in 1944. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 271 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Priscille’s family of names
In French usage, Priscille has a conventional equivalent in the English form Priscilla. In French usage, Priscille has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form PRISCILA.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Priscille has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
2 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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