Preciosa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- preh-SYOH-sa
- Origin
- Spanish
Preciosa is a girls' name of Spanish origin, meaning “precious”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Preciosa mean?
Spanish: Spanish feminine of precioso, from Latin pretiosus
“precious”
Preciosa is the heroine of Cervantes's novella La gitanilla, The Little Gypsy Girl.
Is Preciosa a girl's or a boy's name?
Preciosa is a girls' name.
How popular is Preciosa in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1999, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.
Half of all the girls named Preciosa in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.
Preciosa in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,282 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,951 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,700 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,418 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
Names like Preciosa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ximena Lucero Azucena Solana Xaria Montana Dulce Montserrat Lola Juana Lupita Priscila
Names related to Preciosa
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Preciosa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/preciosa, updated 20 October 2026.