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Prudence

Rank in 2024
#2,578
Born in 2024
68
Peak year
1943 · #642
Origin
English

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 68 girls were named Prudence, about 1 in every 23,723.
  • It peaked in 1943 with 140 babies, ranked #642.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 6,165 girls have been named Prudence since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Prudence per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 1,165 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Silent: 1,234 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,114 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 705 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 160 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 459 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 989 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A female given name from English, one of the Puritan virtue names.
Origin
English
Say it
Not recorded

From Wiktionary’s entry for Prudence, CC BY-SA 4.0.