Prentice
Prentice is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 792nd, in 1939.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 193960 births
- Best rank
- #792in 1939
- Since 1884
- 3,923people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,923 boys have been named Prentice in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1939, with 60 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 1970s alone account for 11%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Prentice | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 12 | |
| 1890s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 51 | |
| 1910s | 267 | |
| 1920s | 387 | |
| 1930s | 371 | |
| 1940s | 437 | |
| 1950s | 438 | |
| 1960s | 420 | |
| 1970s | 448 | |
| 1980s | 441 | |
| 1990s | 250 | |
| 2000s | 179 | |
| 2010s | 170 | |
| 2020s | 41 |
In 1939, its biggest year
Prentice was the 792nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1939 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1939.
Names that rose and fell with Prentice
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Prentisspeak 1943
- Currypeak 1970
- Carltonpeak 1957
- Theronpeak 1966
- Stanfordpeak 1954
- Lovellpeak 1916
- Feltonpeak 1948
- Lorenpeak 1955
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.