What is the meaning of the name Precious?

The meaning of the name Precious is "of great value, highly esteemed". The origin of the name is "Latin". The name Precious is mostly used as a girls name.

Right pronunciation of Precious

\p-re-cious\

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Precious is a very popular first name for girls (#1413) but a really uncommon last name. Users of our site ranked the name with a 0.0 (0 vote(s)). Like or dislike the name by ranking this girls name above or write a comment on the name Precious.

How popular is the name Precious?

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The year 2001 was for Precious a very good year. In that year there were 835 births with the name Precious. Find out if Precious is in the top 100 girls names 2001 or check all top 100 names for any State in any year!

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