Baby Girl Names - Precious

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The name Precious is of English origin, and means precious or valuable. The table below indicates the number of times the name Precious has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Precious**
Use of the Name Precious for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
13,287	13,287	12,960	6,496	3,115	1,047	500

The table below indicates the number of times the name Precious has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. Precious first appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1978, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Precious**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1978	990	139
1979	832	188
1980	691	249
1981	692	246
1982	658	271
1983	640	268
1984	635	278
1985	528	378
1986	504	416
1987	501	427
1988	434	522
1989	478	496
1990	451	546
1991	444	573
1992	442	570
1993	420	594
1994	399	630
1995	418	618
1996	378	701
1997	408	638
1998	381	738
1999	406	686
2000	437	645
2001	391	743
2002	425	680
2003	517	547
2004	564	500
Totals:		13,287		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Precious as a girl's name nearly 100% of the time and almost never as a boy's name.

See the Social Security card applications information for qualifiers about the data shown on this page.

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