Prudie
Last seen for girls in 1954 at #5,148
- Peak · girls
- 1882 · 7 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 354since 1882
Prudie over time
Rank among girls' names. Prudie 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
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| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 |
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| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 |
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| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
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| 1936 | #3,376 | 7 |
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| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 |
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| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 |
| 1928 | #3,436 | 8 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 |
| 1925 | #3,362 | 9 |
| 1924 | #3,665 | 8 |
| 1923 | #3,350 | 9 |
| 1922 | — | |
| 1921 | #4,464 | 6 |
| 1920 | #2,731 | 12 |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #4,291 | 6 |
| 1917 | #2,428 | 13 |
| 1916 | #2,658 | 11 |
| 1915 | #2,384 | 12 |
| 1914 | #2,876 | 7 |
| 1913 | #2,164 | 9 |
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| 1910 | #1,935 | 7 |
| 1909 | #1,219 | 12 |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,289 | 10 |
| 1906 | #1,321 | 9 |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,659 | 6 |
| 1903 | #1,440 | 7 |
| 1902 | #1,075 | 11 |
| 1901 | #1,227 | 8 |
| 1900 | #1,171 | 11 |
| 1899 | #935 | 12 |
| 1898 | #1,379 | 7 |
| 1897 | #1,167 | 8 |
| 1896 | #1,292 | 7 |
| 1895 | #1,053 | 10 |
| 1894 | #1,237 | 7 |
| 1893 | #1,091 | 8 |
| 1892 | #1,017 | 9 |
| 1891 | #1,332 | 5 |
| 1890 | #758 | 13 |
| 1889 | #1,279 | 5 |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | #937 | 7 |
| 1886 | #897 | 7 |
| 1885 | #1,047 | 5 |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | #740 | 7 |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Prudie! It came in at #740, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1883–1885, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Prudie
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1954
- Biggest jump: 521 spots in 1890 (#1,279 → #758)
- Biggest drop: 574 spots in 1891 (#758 → #1,332)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1882 at #740 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1883, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1886–1887
- Highest: 1 in 14,644 girls born in 1890 were named Prudie (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 323,653 girls born in 1954 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #740 in 1882, was only 1 in 15,407 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.3% of all girls named Prudie (86) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 31 | #740 (1882) | #980 |
| 1890s | 86 | #758 (1890) | #1,126 |
| 1900s | 74 | #1,075 (1902) | #1,300 |
| 1910s | 65 | #1,935 (1910) | #2,677 |
| 1920s | 63 | #2,731 (1920) | #3,736 |
| 1930s | 13 | #3,376 (1936) | #3,565 |
| 1940s | 10 | #4,420 (1941) | #4,556 |
| 1950s | 12 | #4,908 (1952) | #5,028 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Prudie in 1882
Top girls' names in 1882
More about 1882
girls
107,847 girls got a published name in 1882; 1 in 15,407 of them was named Prudie, which outranked 28.0% of the 1,028 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #678Vertie8
- #678Wilhelmine8
- #678Zoa8
- #740Prudie7
- #740Agusta7
- #740Albina7
- #740Alicia7
- #813Albertina6
- #813Alda6
- #813Alwina6
Tied with 72 names at #740; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 380Clementine#740 → #360
- ↑ 337Lissie#830 → #493
- ↑ 323Lonnie#830 → #507
- ↑ 300Erna#830 → #530
- ↑ 300Hedwig#830 → #530
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.