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Precilla vs Prentiss

American parents have registered 2,789 Prentisses since 1880, against 671 Precillas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Precilla against Prentiss, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Precilla Prentiss

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 124 years in which either name was published, Prentiss for 123 years and Precilla for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Precilla Prentiss
Total US births 6712,789
Most in one year 2950
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5201,700
Median age today 4450
Peak year 19571943
Best rank 2,028th girls980th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19111887
Girls / boys 671 / 065 / 2,724

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Prentisses alive today are over 50; half the Precillas are over 44. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Precilla Prentiss
France 6020

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Precilla and Prentiss.