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How popular is “Prescilla” in the USA?

Number of people named “Prescilla” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Prescilla” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Prescilla” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Prescilla” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Prescilla” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Prescilla” by birth year

This chart shows how “Prescilla” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1919 6 0.000002843 6 100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 100%
1933 9 0.000004501 9 100%
1935 12 0.000005742 12 100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 100%
1938 16 0.000007231 16 100%
1939 13 0.0000059 13 100%
1940 16 0.000006948 16 100%
1941 14 0.000005746 14 100%
1942 15 0.000005491 15 100%
1943 15 0.000005314 15 100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 100%
1945 10 0.000003769 10 100%
1946 9 0.000002817 9 100%
1947 20 0.000005552 20 100%
1948 15 0.000004345 15 100%
1949 16 0.000004591 16 100%
1950 14 0.000003996 14 100%
1951 13 0.000003529 13 100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 100%
1953 10 0.000002595 10 100%
1954 14 0.000003517 14 100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 100%
1956 11 0.000002668 11 100%
1957 11 0.000002618 11 100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 100%
1959 16 0.000003848 16 100%
1960 10 0.000002407 10 100%
1961 11 0.000002656 11 100%
1962 12 0.000002974 12 100%
1963 11 0.000002779 11 100%
1964 12 0.000003087 12 100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 100%
1968 12 0.000003552 12 100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1970 13 0.000003605 13 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1972 13 0.000004136 13 100%
1973 10 0.000003315 10 100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 100%
1977 15 0.000004722 15 100%
1978 15 0.000004726 15 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 100%
1980 14 0.000004064 14 100%
1981 20 0.000005781 20 100%
1982 20 0.000005701 20 100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 100%
1984 19 0.000005446 19 100%
1985 15 0.000004203 15 100%
1986 18 0.00000506 18 100%
1987 14 0.000003883 14 100%
1988 18 0.000004871 18 100%
1989 24 0.000006243 24 100%
1990 19 0.000004807 19 100%
1991 28 0.000007188 28 100%
1992 25 0.000006508 25 100%
1993 21 0.00000557 21 100%
1994 15 0.000004035 15 100%
1995 14 0.000003823 14 100%
1996 16 0.000004387 16 100%
1997 21 0.000005792 21 100%
1998 14 0.000003806 14 100%
1999 20 0.000005414 20 100%
2000 9 0.000002381 9 100%
2001 12 0.000003206 12 100%
2002 18 0.000004815 18 100%
2003 14 0.000003682 14 100%
2004 10 0.000002617 10 100%
2005 12 0.000003121 12 100%
2006 11 0.00000278 11 100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 100%

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