US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE PRECIOUS

Same rise and fall as Precious, around the same years.

WHERE PRECIOUS IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Precious ranked highest in Texas (#3,923) and lowest in California (#5,341). 49 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Precious name popularity

Precious has been given to 19,540 babies in the United States since 1897.

It peaked in 2001, when 746 babies got the name, and its best rank was #719 in 1996.

In 2025, 51 babies were named Precious (#5,540 in the country), 93% below the peak. That is down 63% from 2015.

Almost every Precious is a girl.

An estimated 18K people named Precious are alive in the US today, with a median age of 29.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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