Prisca
given name · Latin script
Meaning: An alternative name for Priscilla, an early Christian
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɾisca/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Prisca is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 698(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1.6K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 698 (inferred from the name graph)
≈84,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
An alternative name for Priscilla, an early Christian.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Prisca 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 698 | — | Prisca | 10 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Prisca | 10 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #284 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Prisca | 9 |
| CM Cameroon | #321 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Prisca | 16 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Prisca | 6 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Prisca | 18 |
| MW Malawi | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Prisca | 3 |
| US United States | — | 1,374 | 1 in 242K | 1.4K | Prisca | 71 |
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. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Prisca is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, ) Priska: weibl. Vom. lateini schen Ursprungs, der auf einen römischen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Antica
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Of New Testament origin: feminine form of the Roman family name Priscus (originally a nickname meaning ‘ancient’). Prisca (2 Timothy 4: 19) and Priscilla (Acts 18: 3) are apparently the same person, but it is the diminutive form which became established as a common given name.
as a word
In Italian, feminine singular of prisco
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Prisca Matimba Nyambeb. 1951ZMZambian judge
- Priscila Uppalb. 1974CAnot in their usual nameCanadian writer (1974–2018)
- Priscila Solb. 1980BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian actress
- Priscilla Solb. 1981BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian pornographic actress
- Priscila Peralesb. 1983MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress and actor
- Priscila Fantinb. 1983BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian actress
- Prisca Thevenotb. 1985FRFrench politician
- Priscila Machadob. 1986BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian model, Miss Brasil 2011
- Priscila Tommyb. 1991VUnot in their usual nameVanuatuan table tennis player (* 1991)
- Prisca Awiti Alcarazb. 1996GBMexican-British judoka
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 76 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,904 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 14 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #9,904 |
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 Prisca mean, and where does it come from?
- An alternative name for Priscilla, an early Christian. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Prisca?
- In the etymology graph, Priscila, Pricila and Priscillia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Prisca?
- A machine transcription gives /pɾisca/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- Is Prisca a male or female name?
- Prisca 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.
- In which country does Prisca have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 84 thousand people named Prisca in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prisca.
- How common is the name Prisca?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,374 people named Prisca in 2020, about 1 in 242 thousand residents.
- How common is Prisca compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Prisca is the 284th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Prisca?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/priscaThe 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, “Prisca” — the 284th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.