Prentiss
Prentiss is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 983rd, in 1943.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 194347 births
- Best rank
- #983in 1943
- Since 1887
- 2,789people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,724 boys have been named Prentiss in the United States since 1887, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1943, with 47 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 1958, and the 1950s alone account for 13%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 65 girls have also been given it, 2.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Prentiss | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 47 | |
| 1910s | 180 | |
| 1920s | 254 | |
| 1930s | 255 | |
| 1940s | 328 | |
| 1950s | 343 | |
| 1960s | 299 | |
| 1970s | 304 | |
| 1980s | 284 | |
| 1990s | 179 | |
| 2000s | 116 | |
| 2010s | 97 | |
| 2020s | 22 |
In 1943, its biggest year
Prentiss was the 983rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1943 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1943.
Names that rose and fell with Prentiss
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Prenticepeak 1939
- Feltonpeak 1948
- Artispeak 1951
- Currypeak 1970
- Ezellpeak 1951
- Alphonsopeak 1962
- Lovellpeak 1916
- Tommiepeak 1947
Other spellings in the data
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.