Prudie

Last seen for girls in 1954 at #5,148

Peak · girls
1882 · 7 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
354
since 1882

Prudie over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Prudie has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201887peak #740, 1882girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1954#5,1486
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1943#4,6915
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1929#4,5705
1928#3,4368
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1926#4,3066
1925#3,3629
1924#3,6658
1923#3,3509
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1921#4,4646
1920#2,73112
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1918#4,2916
1917#2,42813
1916#2,65811
1915#2,38412
1914#2,8767
1913#2,1649
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1910#1,9357
1909#1,21912
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1907#1,28910
1906#1,3219
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1904#1,6596
1903#1,4407
1902#1,07511
1901#1,2278
1900#1,17111
1899#93512
1898#1,3797
1897#1,1678
1896#1,2927
1895#1,05310
1894#1,2377
1893#1,0918
1892#1,0179
1891#1,3325
1890#75813
1889#1,2795
1888
1887#9377
1886#8977
1885#1,0475
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1882#7407
1881
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First appearance
1882

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
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1882
  • Peaked 1882 at #740 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1883, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1886–1887
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,644
  • 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
Era · girls
The 1890s
  • 24.3% of all girls named Prudie (86) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s31#740 (1882)#980
1890s86#758 (1890)#1,126
1900s74#1,075 (1902)#1,300
1910s65#1,935 (1910)#2,677
1920s63#2,731 (1920)#3,736
1930s13#3,376 (1936)#3,565
1940s10#4,420 (1941)#4,556
1950s12#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 1887

girls
#937
7 births · 1 in 20,854 girls

Top girls' names in 1887

  1. #1Mary9,888
  2. #2Anna4,227
  3. #3Elizabeth2,681
  4. #4Emma2,647
  5. #5Margaret2,419
  6. #6Minnie2,215
  7. #7Bertha2,037
  8. #8Clara1,984
  9. #9Florence1,964
  10. #10Ida1,929
  11. #937Prudie7
More about 1887

girls

145,981 girls got a published name in 1887; 1 in 20,854 of them was named Prudie, which outranked 28.3% of the 1,306 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Prudie
  1. #860Vennie8
  2. #860Vicie8
  3. #860Zettie8
  4. #937Prudie7
  5. #937Alba7
  6. #937Albert7
  7. #937Albertina7
  8. #1,036Alla6
  9. #1,036Alverta6
  10. #1,036Anie6

Tied with 98 names at #937; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1886
Risers
  1. 571Ossie#1,108#537
  2. 522Albertine#1,108#586
  3. 475Grayce#1,108#633
  4. 447Berenice#1,108#661
  5. 447Elfrieda#1,108#661
Fallers
  1. 591Faith#556#1,147
  2. 541Jo#606#1,147
  3. 541Leanna#606#1,147
  4. 541Manie#606#1,147
  5. 430Drusilla#606#1,036

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1887