Prescott
Prescott is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201751 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1913
- 1,796people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,676 boys have been named Prescott in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 51 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 2010s alone account for 17%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 120 girls have also been given it, 6.7% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Prescott | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 70 | |
| 1920s | 92 | |
| 1930s | 63 | |
| 1940s | 87 | |
| 1950s | 103 | |
| 1960s | 135 | |
| 1970s | 127 | |
| 1980s | 172 | |
| 1990s | 221 | |
| 2000s | 185 | |
| 2010s | 278 | |
| 2020s | 143 |
In 2017, its biggest year
Prescott was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Prescott
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marcelpeak 2022
- Gasparpeak 2024
- Ninopeak 1998
- Svenpeak 2015
- Levonpeak 2018
- Luciopeak 2024
- Augustopeak 2024
- Mauropeak 2006
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.