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How popular is the name Precious?
Births per year, rank history and how many Preciouses are alive today.
Precious (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 1229th in 2025 and given to 26 babies. The name peaked in 2006, when 102 babies were given the name, the 410th most popular that year. It has declined since 2006; the 2025 figure is roughly 25% of its peak.
The Precious you are most likely to meet is around 19 years old. Half of all Preciouses born in England and Wales are between 12 and 23, and there are at least 1,700 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Precious - on average, only one in every 186 such rooms contains a Precious.
How many babies are named Precious each year?
Where does Precious rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Precious most popular?
Precious peaked in 2006, when 102 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Precious?
At least 1,700 people named Precious born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Precious?
Most living Preciouses are between 12 and 23; the most common age is about 19.
Is Precious becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2006 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.