Meaning not yet researched.
Promise: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 330 in 2025. Its best rank was #714 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #714 in 2023; #826 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Promise in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#826 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #714.
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Promise: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 330 girls in 2025. Peak: #714 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 395 (2023).
In 2025, 330 US girls were named Promise, making it the 826th most common girls’ name of the year, down 7 places from #819 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 337 girls named Promise in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #714, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 395. For comparison, it was #1,071 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Promise in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 6,838 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 6.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,586 babies named Promise.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,208 US girls were named Promise; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 395. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,871 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Promise ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #287 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elise (75,252 babies since 1880), Gage (61,055 babies since 1880), Amaris (10,168 babies since 1880) and Aditya (5,405 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sheba, Promyse and Yamina are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sheba (1,173), Promyse (628), Yamina (196), Promiss (100), Promize (30), Promyss (17), Promysse (10), Promisse (7).
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 Promise in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 18 | #287 | #362 |
| Georgia | 34 | #317 | #586 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #332 | — |
| Mississippi | 9 | #333 | — |
| Louisiana | 12 | #391 | — |
| Florida | 35 | #527 | #857 |
| Maryland | 10 | #539 | #864 |
| Virginia | 14 | #562 | #1,181 |
| Illinois | 16 | #615 | — |
| Tennessee | 11 | #694 | #1,037 |
| Michigan | 11 | #725 | #579 |
| New York | 21 | #782 | #1,464 |
| Missouri | 7 | #790 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #801 | #786 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #815 | #982 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #890 | #625 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #994 | #924 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #1,011 | #1,323 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,110 | #729 |
| Texas | 24 | #1,149 | #1,603 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,169 | #668 |
| California | 19 | #1,310 | #2,282 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 330 | #826 | 18 | #5,343 |
| 2024 | 337 | #819 | 21 | #4,837 |
| 2023 | 395 | #714 | 27 | #4,086 |
| 2022 | 365 | #780 | 38 | #3,202 |
| 2021 | 390 | #731 | 18 | #5,283 |
| 2020 | 319 | #853 | 25 | #4,114 |
| 2019 | 320 | #844 | 27 | #3,969 |
| 2018 | 295 | #912 | 17 | #5,487 |
| 2017 | 242 | #1,063 | 21 | #4,704 |
| 2016 | 215 | #1,172 | 10 | #8,018 |
| 2015 | 246 | #1,071 | 18 | #5,231 |
| 2014 | 249 | #1,047 | 11 | #7,425 |
| 2013 | 218 | #1,118 | 16 | #5,587 |
| 2012 | 211 | #1,164 | 9 | #8,700 |
| 2011 | 217 | #1,133 | 9 | #8,603 |
| 2010 | 217 | #1,132 | 18 | #5,193 |
| 2009 | 203 | #1,230 | 14 | #6,348 |
| 2008 | 203 | #1,240 | 14 | #6,322 |
| 2007 | 179 | #1,356 | 10 | #8,024 |
| 2006 | 149 | #1,486 | 10 | #7,864 |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,715 | 9 | #8,141 |
| 2004 | 107 | #1,790 | 9 | #8,017 |
| 2003 | 98 | #1,881 | 8 | #8,434 |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,371 | 8 | #8,253 |
| 2001 | 99 | #1,804 | 6 | #10,222 |
| 2000 | 74 | #2,168 | 6 | #10,015 |
| 1999 | 61 | #2,418 | 5 | #11,172 |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,359 | — | — |
| 1997 | 57 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,011 | — | — |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,718 | 5 | #9,933 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,978 | — | — |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,212 | — | — |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,991 | 5 | #9,458 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,286 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,183 | — | — |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,874 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,245 | — | — |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,093 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,980 | — | — |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,703 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,639 | — | — |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,417 | — | — |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,719 | — | — |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,893 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,206 | — | — |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,557 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,266 | — | — |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,582 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,433 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,162 | — | — |
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).