Priscila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Priscilla (early Christian woman)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Priscila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 27th most common given name.
- UYUruguay1 in 858(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 942
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Priscila itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #885 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 505 (measured from records)
- 1 in 858 (inferred from the name graph)
224,785 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Priscilla in US United States, ZA South Africa, NG Nigeria and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Priscilla (early Christian woman)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Priscila counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #148 | 224,785 | 1 in 942 | 225K | Priscila | 213 |
| US United States | #544 | 87,905as Priscilla | 1 in 3.8K | 88K | Priscilla | 505 |
| NG Nigeria | #981 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | listed | Priscilla | 76 |
| GH Ghana | #27 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 974 | — | Priscilla | 89 |
| ZA South Africa | #326 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Priscilla | 76 |
| AR Argentina | #336 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 283 | Priscila | 98 |
| CR Costa Rica | #125 | 3,966as Priscilla | 1 in 1.3K | 4K | Priscila | 62 |
| UY Uruguay | #135 | 3,950 | 1 in 858 | 4K | Priscila | 35 |
224,785 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Priscila Camargob. 1958BRBrazilian actress
- Priscila Uppalb. 1974CACanadian writer (1974–2018)
- Priscila Solb. 1980BRBrazilian actress
- Priscilla Solb. 1981BRBrazilian pornographic actress
- Priscila Faria de Oliveirab. 1982BRBrazilian association football player
- Priscila Peralesb. 1983MXMexican actress and actor
- Priscila Fantinb. 1983BRBrazilian actress
- Priscila Machadob. 1986BRBrazilian model, Miss Brasil 2011
- Priscila Daroitb. 1988BRBrazilian volleyball player
- Priscila Tommyb. 1991VUVanuatuan table tennis player (* 1991)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 225K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 224K | #142 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 223K | #234 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.5K | #2,992 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 3.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.8K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1.8K | #383 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 740 | #142 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 283 | #411 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 218 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 191 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Priscila mean, and where does it come from?
- Priscilla (early Christian woman) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Priscila have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 225 thousand people named Priscila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled priscila.
- Where is Priscila most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Priscila is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 858 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- Is Priscila a male or female name?
- Priscila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Priscila?
- In the etymology graph, Priscilla, Prisca and Sissy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Priscila?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 224,785 people named Priscila in 2022, about 1 in 942 residents.
- How common is Priscila compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Priscila is the 148th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/priscilaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Priscila” — the 148th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.