Meaning not yet researched.
Prue: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #5,453 in 1927.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #5,453 in 1927; #6,764 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Prue in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,764 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1927, at #5,453.
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Prue: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #5,453 in 1927 · most girls in one year: 18 (2022).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Prue, making it the 6,764th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,324 places from #10,088 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 10 girls named Prue in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,453, reached in 1927. The most girls given the name in a single year was 18, in 2022. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Prue in 10 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 6 babies. In all, 101 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 5.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 77 babies named Prue.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 84 US girls were named Prue; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Prue in the open dataset we use.
Prue is listed as a nickname for Prudence.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).