Meaning not yet researched.
Prudence: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 89 in 2025. Its best rank was #415 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #415 in 1880; #2,113 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Prudence in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,113 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #415.
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Prudence: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 89 girls in 2025. Peak: #415 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 140 (1943).
In 2025, 89 US girls were named Prudence, making it the 2,113th most common girls’ name of the year, up 489 places from #2,602 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 68 girls named Prudence in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #415, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 140, in 1943. For comparison, it was #2,613 in 2015 and #1,160 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Prudence in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 17 babies. In all, 6,256 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 952 babies named Prudence.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 872 US girls were named Prudence; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 109. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,059 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Prudence ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #533 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Prudencio and Prudance are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Prudy and Prue.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Prudencio (401), Prudance (5).
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.
Prudence is listed as a nickname for Prudy.
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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 7 | #533 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,204 | — |
| California | 5 | #3,420 | #3,841 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89 | #2,113 | — | — |
| 2024 | 68 | #2,602 | — | — |
| 2023 | 79 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,504 | — | — |
| 2020 | 84 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 2019 | 109 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 2018 | 96 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 2017 | 96 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 2016 | 81 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 2015 | 69 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,836 | — | — |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,361 | — | — |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,159 | — | — |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,292 | — | — |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,894 | — | — |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,335 | — | — |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,914 | — | — |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,659 | — | — |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,395 | — | — |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,706 | — | — |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,820 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,358 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,924 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,709 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,069 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,766 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,041 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,398 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,275 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,144 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,372 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,428 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,907 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,416 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,358 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,532 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,384 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,943 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,872 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,368 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,481 | — | — |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,120 | — | — |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,158 | — | — |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,780 | — | — |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,470 | — | — |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,149 | — | — |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 1975 | 48 | #1,895 | — | — |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 1973 | 71 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1972 | 77 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1971 | 104 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,628 | — | — |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,944 | — | — |
| 1964 | 36 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1963 | 42 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 1960 | 38 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 1957 | 54 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 1956 | 59 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1955 | 48 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 1953 | 66 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1952 | 64 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1951 | 65 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1950 | 64 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1949 | 76 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1948 | 86 | #938 | — | — |
| 1947 | 103 | #866 | — | — |
| 1946 | 102 | #823 | — | — |
| 1945 | 96 | #766 | — | — |
| 1944 | 110 | #724 | — | — |
| 1943 | 140 | #644 | — | — |
| 1942 | 106 | #731 | — | — |
| 1941 | 68 | #891 | — | — |
| 1940 | 65 | #892 | — | — |
| 1939 | 69 | #847 | — | — |
| 1938 | 66 | #868 | — | — |
| 1937 | 57 | #918 | — | — |
| 1936 | 51 | #967 | — | — |
| 1935 | 56 | #933 | — | — |
| 1934 | 46 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1933 | 49 | #995 | — | — |
| 1932 | 49 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1931 | 46 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1930 | 58 | #969 | — | — |
| 1929 | 51 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1928 | 51 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1927 | 75 | #855 | — | — |
| 1926 | 66 | #923 | — | — |
| 1925 | 84 | #815 | — | — |
| 1924 | 63 | #969 | — | — |
| 1923 | 57 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1922 | 58 | #986 | — | — |
| 1921 | 55 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1920 | 74 | #844 | — | — |
| 1919 | 55 | #964 | — | — |
| 1918 | 67 | #878 | — | — |
| 1917 | 74 | #805 | — | — |
| 1916 | 58 | #891 | — | — |
| 1915 | 42 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1914 | 29 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 1913 | 40 | #837 | — | — |
| 1912 | 39 | #803 | — | — |
| 1911 | 22 | #951 | — | — |
| 1910 | 18 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1909 | 30 | #744 | — | — |
| 1908 | 17 | #999 | — | — |
| 1907 | 25 | #758 | — | — |
| 1906 | 22 | #789 | — | — |
| 1905 | 17 | #918 | — | — |
| 1904 | 19 | #849 | — | — |
| 1903 | 19 | #806 | — | — |
| 1902 | 22 | #750 | — | — |
| 1901 | 18 | #792 | — | — |
| 1900 | 28 | #685 | — | — |
| 1899 | 16 | #827 | — | — |
| 1898 | 27 | #629 | — | — |
| 1897 | 12 | #970 | — | — |
| 1896 | 17 | #809 | — | — |
| 1895 | 14 | #887 | — | — |
| 1894 | 21 | #658 | — | — |
| 1893 | 22 | #625 | — | — |
| 1892 | 16 | #753 | — | — |
| 1891 | 15 | #723 | — | — |
| 1890 | 19 | #614 | — | — |
| 1889 | 17 | #636 | — | — |
| 1888 | 20 | #567 | — | — |
| 1887 | 10 | #783 | — | — |
| 1886 | 19 | #525 | — | — |
| 1885 | 14 | #604 | — | — |
| 1884 | 8 | #840 | — | — |
| 1883 | 11 | #607 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #796 | — | — |
| 1881 | 9 | #617 | — | — |
| 1880 | 17 | #415 | — | — |
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).