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Meaning of the namePricilla

Pricilla is a spelling of the name Pricila, which means “spelling of Priscila, diminutive of Prisca, from Latin priscus, 'ancient'”.

Meaning

“spelling of Priscila, diminutive of Prisca, from Latin priscus, 'ancient'”

Meaning of the name Pricila, of which Pricilla is a spelling.

Source: Behind the Name: Priscilla · Behind the Name: Prisca · Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Priscila

People (2022)
1,441
Rank in Brazil
#6,442
Median age
34 years
2010 Census
1,252
people

Pricilla in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Pricilla, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1980s (648 people).

1,436 women 0 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Pricilla is most common

States with the highest share of people named Pricilla in the population, in the 2022 Census.

  1. Goiás 0.002%
  2. Rio de Janeiro 0.001%
  3. Minas Gerais 0.001%
  4. São Paulo 0.001%
All states
StatePeople% of population
São Paulo2760.001%
Minas Gerais1630.001%
Rio de Janeiro1510.001%
Goiás1260.002%
Bahia940.001%
Paraná750.001%
Pernambuco730.001%
Santa Catarina520.001%
Rio Grande do Sul470.000%
Ceará390.000%
Paraíba370.001%
Distrito Federal360.001%
Espírito Santo350.001%
Mato Grosso310.001%
Maranhão290.000%
Alagoas270.001%
Pará240.000%
Rio Grande do Norte240.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul230.001%
Sergipe180.001%
Amazonas160.000%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

The spelling Pricilla

It also omits the S and doubles the L, as in the English spelling Priscilla.

About the name Pricila

Behind the Name describes Priscilla as a Roman name, a diminutive of Prisca, and lists Pricila among the Brazilian Portuguese forms. Prisca is the feminine of Priscus, a Roman cognomen that in Latin means 'ancient, old'. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil), citing Machado (1981), also links Priscila to Latin Priscus, 'literally, ancient'. In the New Testament, Priscila is the wife of Áquila. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 30,485 people named Pricila, with a median age of 32.

Other spellings of Pricila

SpellingPeople (2022)
Pricila30,485
Pricilla1,441

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Priscilla · behindthename.com · meaning
  2. Behind the Name: Prisca · behindthename.com · meaning
  3. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Priscila · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · meaning

Questions about the name Pricilla

What does the name Pricilla mean?

Pricilla means “spelling of Priscila, diminutive of Prisca, from Latin priscus, 'ancient'”, according to Behind the Name and Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil. This is the meaning of the name Pricila, of which Pricilla is a spelling.

How many people are named Pricilla in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,441 people with the first name Pricilla, which ranks it number 6,442 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

Is Pricilla a boy's or a girl's name?

Pricilla is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 1,436 women and 0 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

What is the origin of the name Pricilla?

Pricilla is a name of Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Pricilla most common?

Proportionally, in Goiás: 0.002% of the state's population is named Pricilla (126 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Pricilla?

Pricila. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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