# Precious (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/precious/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 19,540 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 147 / 19,393 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,647, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 199 | 1,208 |
| 2012 | 157 | 1,455 |
| 2013 | 145 | 1,522 |
| 2014 | 133 | 1,620 |
| 2015 | 131 | 1,640 |
| 2016 | 109 | 1,881 |
| 2017 | 111 | 1,850 |
| 2018 | 113 | 1,810 |
| 2019 | 90 | 2,102 |
| 2020 | 58 | 2,847 |
| 2021 | 84 | 2,228 |
| 2022 | 87 | 2,186 |
| 2023 | 70 | 2,549 |
| 2024 | 69 | 2,581 |
| 2025 | 51 | 3,158 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | 6,051 |
| 1987 | 5 | 7,838 |
| 1988 | 8 | 5,595 |
| 1989 | 8 | 6,079 |
| 1990 | 8 | 6,265 |
| 1994 | 7 | 7,549 |
| 2002 | 7 | 9,147 |
| 2003 | 5 | 12,274 |
| 2004 | 5 | 12,748 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,975 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,578 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,553 |
| 2016 | 6 | 11,793 |
| 2019 | 6 | 11,789 |
| 2023 | 6 | 11,911 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 78 | 534 |
| 2012 | 79 | 536 |
| 2013 | 66 | 616 |
| 2014 | 64 | 629 |
| 2015 | 58 | 696 |
| 2016 | 45 | 837 |
| 2017 | 55 | 733 |
| 2018 | 32 | 1,083 |
| 2019 | 39 | 920 |
| 2020 | 32 | 1,044 |
| 2021 | 28 | 1,195 |
| 2022 | 22 | 1,416 |
| 2023 | 30 | 1,108 |
| 2024 | 26 | 1,262 |
| 2025 | 26 | 1,229 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | 1,991 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2008 | 4 | 3,687 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## People named Precious

- Precious Lara Quigaman, Filipina beauty pageant titleholder
- Precious Adams, American ballet dancer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.