Prentice
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #13,453 · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to boys 98.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1939 · 60 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,929since 1884
Prentice over time
Rank among boys' names. Prentice has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #10,695 | 6 | |
| 2024 | — | #10,938 | 6 | |
| 2023 | — | #9,763 | 7 | |
| 2022 | — | #10,863 | 6 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,587 | 10 | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #6,620 | 12 |
| 2019 | — | #6,406 | 13 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,739 | 20 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,466 | 22 | |
| 2016 | — | #7,605 | 10 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,545 | 21 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,866 | 19 | |
| 2013 | — | #6,241 | 13 | |
| 2012 | — | #6,001 | 14 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,659 | 20 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,047 | 18 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,922 | 19 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,767 | 15 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,127 | 24 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,303 | 16 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,034 | 16 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,421 | 19 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,815 | 16 | |
| 2002 | — | #5,725 | 12 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,890 | 15 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,150 | 27 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,834 | 19 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,486 | 21 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,455 | 20 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,293 | 21 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,923 | 24 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,911 | 16 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,786 | 25 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,253 | 33 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #2,344 | 30 |
| 1990 | — | #1,870 | 41 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #1,615 | 49 |
| 1988 | — | #1,768 | 39 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,709 | 39 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,694 | 37 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,866 | 31 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,294 | 51 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,562 | 38 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,264 | 54 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,309 | 50 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,272 | 53 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,487 | 40 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,570 | 36 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,198 | 54 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,390 | 41 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,160 | 53 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,351 | 40 | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #1,253 | 43 |
| 1972 | — | #1,262 | 43 | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #1,272 | 43 |
| 1970 | — | #1,103 | 55 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,376 | 34 | |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | #1,258 | 36 |
| 1967 | — | #1,018 | 51 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,149 | 42 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,294 | 35 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,263 | 38 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,279 | 37 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,172 | 44 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,078 | 52 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,083 | 51 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,101 | 49 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,237 | 39 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,063 | 51 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,045 | 52 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,138 | 43 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,052 | 50 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,123 | 43 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,517 | 25 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,040 | 47 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,139 | 39 | |
| 1949 | — | #985 | 50 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,001 | 49 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,271 | 33 | |
| 1946 | — | #878 | 56 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,227 | 29 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,038 | 40 | |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 | #1,037 | 42 |
| 1942 | — | #1,089 | 39 | |
| 1941 | — | #987 | 42 | |
| 1940 | — | #830 | 57 | |
| 1939 | — | #784 | 60 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,076 | 36 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,074 | 36 | |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | #949 | 42 |
| 1935 | — | #1,165 | 32 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,092 | 36 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,230 | 29 | |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 | #1,077 | 39 |
| 1931 | — | #1,170 | 34 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,399 | 27 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,111 | 39 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,211 | 35 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,293 | 32 | |
| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 | #1,144 | 39 |
| 1925 | — | #1,012 | 46 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,223 | 35 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,177 | 37 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,259 | 33 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,018 | 47 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,045 | 44 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,063 | 41 | |
| 1918 | #4,291 | 6 | #1,079 | 40 |
| 1917 | — | #1,528 | 22 | |
| 1916 | — | #972 | 43 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,100 | 34 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,019 | 30 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,173 | 19 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,174 | 16 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,190 | 9 | |
| 1910 | — | #859 | 13 | |
| 1909 | — | #1,440 | 5 | |
| 1908 | — | #1,217 | 6 | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | #852 | 9 | |
| 1905 | — | #919 | 8 | |
| 1904 | — | #1,205 | 5 | |
| 1903 | — | #1,009 | 6 | |
| 1902 | — | #1,137 | 5 | |
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | #1,050 | 7 | |
| 1899 | — | #928 | 6 | |
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | #1,057 | 5 | |
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | #819 | 6 | |
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | #848 | 6 | |
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Prentice! It came in at #848, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1885–1886, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Prentice
- 243 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #10,695)
- 4,075 spots since 2020 (#6,620 → #10,695)
- 6,150 spots since 2015 (#4,545 → #10,695)
- Biggest jump: 581 spots in 1910 (#1,440 → #859)
- Biggest drop: 556 spots in 1917 (#972 → #1,528)
- Debuted 1884
- Peaked 1939 at #784 (60 births)
- Births halved by 1945, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1939–1941
- Highest: 1 in 14,795 boys born in 1906 were named Prentice (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #784 in 1939, was only 1 in 18,448 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 11.4% of all boys named Prentice (448) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 12 | #819 (1887) | #834 |
| 1890s | 11 | #928 (1899) | #993 |
| 1900s | 51 | #852 (1906) | #1,104 |
| 1910s | 267 | #859 (1910) | #1,116 |
| 1920s | 387 | #1,012 (1925) | #1,149 |
| 1930s | 371 | #784 (1939) | #1,102 |
| 1940s | 437 | #830 (1940) | #1,034 |
| 1950s | 438 | #1,040 (1951) | #1,146 |
| 1960s | 420 | #1,018 (1967) | #1,197 |
| 1970s | 448 | #1,103 (1970) | #1,305 |
| 1980s | 441 | #1,264 (1982) | #1,535 |
| 1990s | 250 | #1,870 (1990) | #3,016 |
| 2000s | 179 | #3,150 (2000) | #4,815 |
| 2010s | 170 | #4,466 (2017) | #5,458 |
| 2020s | 47 | #6,620 (2020) | #9,411 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Prentice in 1932
Top girls' names in 1932
Top boys' names in 1932
More about 1932
girls
1,067,148 girls got a published name in 1932; 1 in 152,450 of them was named Prentice, which outranked 30.0% of the 5,098 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,274Yoko8
- #3,274Yoshie8
- #3,274Zara8
- #3,568Prentice7
- #3,568Adel7
- #3,568Adelfa7
- #3,568Adlean7
- #3,901Adalene6
- #3,901Adamae6
- #3,901Addis6
Tied with 332 names at #3,568; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,044,157 boys got a published name in 1932; 1 in 26,773 of them was named Prentice, which outranked 74.9% of the 4,284 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,056Orvil40
- #1,056Thad40
- #1,056Wally40
- #1,077Prentice39
- #1,077Clive39
- #1,077Dante39
- #1,077Denton39
- #1,090Anna38
- #1,090Arnulfo38
- #1,090Berton38
Tied with 12 names at #1,077; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.