Meaning and history
Priscilla is a Roman name and a diminutive of Prisca. In the New Testament, Acts says that Paul lived for a time with Priscilla, also called Prisca, and her husband Aquila in Corinth. The name has been used as an English given name since the Protestant Reformation and was popular with the Puritans, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow later used it in his 1858 poem The Courtship of Miles Standish.
20062006: 874 births, rank #373
2007: 876 births, rank #374
2008: 777 births, rank #412
2009: 772 births, rank #412
2010: 621 births, rank #486
20112011: 612 births, rank #484
2012: 632 births, rank #488
2013: 637 births, rank #479
2014: 652 births, rank #483
2015: 636 births, rank #501
20162016: 669 births, rank #476
2017: 592 births, rank #526
2018: 535 births, rank #577
2019: 487 births, rank #618
2020: 523 births, rank #561
20212021: 478 births, rank #620
2022: 411 births, rank #714
2023: 452 births, rank #649
2024: 487 births, rank #613
20252025: 555 births, rank #544
Priscilla rose from #613 to #544 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1942, with 1,988 births.