Priscila
Fewer than 60 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met a Priscila. The name comes from Latin and reads as "ancient" or "venerable", a note of age worn as a compliment.
Priscila Pronunciation
Priscila is pronounced prees-CHEE-lah (/prisˈt͡ɕila/).
What Priscila means
Where Priscila comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name comes from Latin priscus, which meant ancient, belonging to an earlier time. From it Romans made Prisca, and a smaller, fonder form, Priscilla. Priscila is the Spanish spelling, and it kept the sense the Latin gave it: something old, something worthy of respect.
The most documented bearer is early. In the Acts of the Apostles, Priscilla works alongside her husband Aquila, making tents and teaching in the young churches of Corinth and Ephesus. Paul names her in his letters. For centuries that Priscilla carried the name through Christian memory.
In Spanish-speaking countries the name settled as Priscila, one L, and stayed in steady use. The Polish reading holds two senses at once: starożytna, ancient, and czcigodna, venerable. Ancient is the literal root. Venerable is what age tends to earn.
Picture a class register at a Polish school. Priscila is written in full, no diminutive beside it. The name is short. It means old, and here old is a compliment.
How many people are named Priscila
1 in 382099 women in Poland is named Priscila. 59 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4828 among female names.
Priscila as a middle name
Priscila is a first name for 59 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2317th, between Praise (11) and Rain (11).
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#2315 Ophelia11
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#2316 Praise11
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#2317 Priscila11
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#2318 Rain11
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#2319 Rebekka11