Meaning not yet researched.
Prentice: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #792 in 1939.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #792 in 1939; #11,671 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Prentice in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,671 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1939, at #792.
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Prentice: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #792 in 1939 · most boys in one year: 60 (1939).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Prentice, making it the 11,671st most common boys’ name of the year, up 326 places from #11,997 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 6 boys named Prentice in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #792, reached in 1939. That year also had the most boys given the name: 60. For comparison, it was #4,666 in 2015 and #1,159 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Prentice in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 6 babies. In all, 3,992 US babies have been given the name, 1.6% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 459 babies named Prentice.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 112 US boys were named Prentice; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Printice are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Printice (64).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Prentice in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #11,671 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #11,997 |
| 2023 | — | — | 7 | #10,529 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #11,963 |
| 2021 | — | — | 10 | #8,015 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,709 | 12 | #6,935 |
| 2019 | — | — | 13 | #6,687 |
| 2018 | — | — | 20 | #4,879 |
| 2017 | — | — | 22 | #4,558 |
| 2016 | — | — | 10 | #8,015 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,666 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #5,015 |
| 2013 | — | — | 13 | #6,521 |
| 2012 | — | — | 14 | #6,228 |
| 2011 | — | — | 20 | #4,786 |
| 2010 | — | — | 18 | #5,192 |
| 2009 | — | — | 19 | #5,058 |
| 2008 | — | — | 15 | #5,992 |
| 2007 | — | — | 24 | #4,219 |
| 2006 | — | — | 16 | #5,469 |
| 2005 | — | — | 16 | #5,219 |
| 2004 | — | — | 19 | #4,555 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #4,983 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,987 |
| 2001 | — | — | 15 | #5,077 |
| 2000 | — | — | 27 | #3,205 |
| 1999 | — | — | 19 | #3,944 |
| 1998 | — | — | 21 | #3,569 |
| 1997 | — | — | 20 | #3,555 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,372 |
| 1995 | — | — | 24 | #3,002 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #4,042 |
| 1993 | — | — | 25 | #2,851 |
| 1992 | — | — | 33 | #2,290 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,759 | 30 | #2,383 |
| 1990 | — | — | 41 | #1,901 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,894 | 49 | #1,635 |
| 1988 | — | — | 39 | #1,786 |
| 1987 | — | — | 39 | #1,727 |
| 1986 | — | — | 37 | #1,718 |
| 1985 | — | — | 31 | #1,908 |
| 1984 | — | — | 51 | #1,314 |
| 1983 | — | — | 38 | #1,582 |
| 1982 | — | — | 54 | #1,273 |
| 1981 | — | — | 50 | #1,323 |
| 1980 | — | — | 53 | #1,286 |
| 1979 | — | — | 40 | #1,504 |
| 1978 | — | — | 36 | #1,592 |
| 1977 | — | — | 54 | #1,203 |
| 1976 | — | — | 41 | #1,404 |
| 1975 | — | — | 53 | #1,164 |
| 1974 | — | — | 40 | #1,366 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,390 | 43 | #1,264 |
| 1972 | — | — | 43 | #1,282 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,054 | 43 | #1,285 |
| 1970 | — | — | 55 | #1,112 |
| 1969 | — | — | 34 | #1,393 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,079 | 36 | #1,275 |
| 1967 | — | — | 51 | #1,028 |
| 1966 | — | — | 42 | #1,155 |
| 1965 | — | — | 35 | #1,313 |
| 1964 | — | — | 38 | #1,283 |
| 1963 | — | — | 37 | #1,297 |
| 1962 | — | — | 44 | #1,185 |
| 1961 | — | — | 52 | #1,092 |
| 1960 | — | — | 51 | #1,094 |
| 1959 | — | — | 49 | #1,113 |
| 1958 | — | — | 39 | #1,249 |
| 1957 | — | — | 51 | #1,072 |
| 1956 | — | — | 52 | #1,051 |
| 1955 | — | — | 43 | #1,149 |
| 1954 | — | — | 50 | #1,063 |
| 1953 | — | — | 43 | #1,134 |
| 1952 | — | — | 25 | #1,540 |
| 1951 | — | — | 47 | #1,049 |
| 1950 | — | — | 39 | #1,159 |
| 1949 | — | — | 50 | #994 |
| 1948 | — | — | 49 | #1,013 |
| 1947 | — | — | 33 | #1,288 |
| 1946 | — | — | 56 | #888 |
| 1945 | — | — | 29 | #1,243 |
| 1944 | — | — | 40 | #1,049 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,208 | 42 | #1,048 |
| 1942 | — | — | 39 | #1,106 |
| 1941 | — | — | 42 | #1,000 |
| 1940 | — | — | 57 | #837 |
| 1939 | — | — | 60 | #792 |
| 1938 | — | — | 36 | #1,090 |
| 1937 | — | — | 36 | #1,090 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,061 | 42 | #967 |
| 1935 | — | — | 32 | #1,188 |
| 1934 | — | — | 36 | #1,113 |
| 1933 | — | — | 29 | #1,249 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,841 | 39 | #1,087 |
| 1931 | — | — | 34 | #1,188 |
| 1930 | — | — | 27 | #1,418 |
| 1929 | — | — | 39 | #1,125 |
| 1928 | — | — | 35 | #1,223 |
| 1927 | — | — | 32 | #1,318 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,473 | 39 | #1,156 |
| 1925 | — | — | 46 | #1,018 |
| 1924 | — | — | 35 | #1,241 |
| 1923 | — | — | 37 | #1,190 |
| 1922 | — | — | 33 | #1,277 |
| 1921 | — | — | 47 | #1,024 |
| 1920 | — | — | 44 | #1,066 |
| 1919 | — | — | 41 | #1,075 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,714 | 40 | #1,089 |
| 1917 | — | — | 22 | #1,573 |
| 1916 | — | — | 43 | #979 |
| 1915 | — | — | 34 | #1,119 |
| 1914 | — | — | 30 | #1,045 |
| 1913 | — | — | 19 | #1,197 |
| 1912 | — | — | 16 | #1,213 |
| 1911 | — | — | 9 | #1,265 |
| 1910 | — | — | 13 | #919 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,636 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,339 |
| 1906 | — | — | 9 | #907 |
| 1905 | — | — | 8 | #986 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,358 |
| 1903 | — | — | 6 | #1,103 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,272 |
| 1900 | — | — | 7 | #1,143 |
| 1899 | — | — | 6 | #1,028 |
| 1897 | — | — | 5 | #1,193 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #894 |
| 1884 | — | — | 6 | #950 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).