Priscillah
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Priscillah is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- KEKenya1 in 7.1K◐
- MWMalawi1 in 2.2K
- ZMZambia1 in 13K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 5.0K ●
- Sources
- 41 ●
in 5 countries
1.5K records
Official registry-verified
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #603 | 4,051 | 864 rec. | — | — | Priscillah | 33 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 309 | 313 rec. | — | — | Priscillah | 11 |
| MW Malawi | #235 | 193 | 0 rec. | — | — | Priscillah | 4 |
| US United States | — | 188 | 169 rec. | — | — | Priscillah | 41 |
| ZM Zambia | #736 | 168 | 0 rec. | — | 1 | Priscillah | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 65 | 24 rec. | — | — | Priscillah | 15 |
| AU Australia | — | 20 | 19 rec. | — | — | Priscillah | 10 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | 15 | 4 rec. | — | — | Priscillah | 7 |
| UG Uganda | — | 10 | 6 rec. | — | — | Priscillah | 6 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 7 | 7 rec. | — | — | Priscillah | 3 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | 5 | 8 rec. | — | — | Priscillah | 1 |
| BW Botswana | #286 | 5 | 17 rec. | — | — | Priscillah | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili4.8K92%
- English2234%
- Arabic351%
- Dutch181%
- Southern Sotho151%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 4,776 | 92% |
| English | 223 | 4% |
| Arabic | 35 | 1% |
| Dutch | 18 | 1% |
| Southern Sotho | 15 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 1 | #44 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 2 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Priscillah?
- Our records include 4,989 bearers of Priscillah across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Priscillah have the most bearers?
- Priscillah is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled priscillah.
- How common is Priscillah compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Priscillah is the 603rd most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- Is Priscillah a male or female name?
- Priscillah 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.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Priscillah” — the 603rd most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.