# Prudence (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/prudence/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Pru, Prudy |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,256 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 6,256 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 341, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 82 | 2,292 |
| 2012 | 53 | 3,159 |
| 2013 | 78 | 2,361 |
| 2014 | 61 | 2,836 |
| 2015 | 69 | 2,613 |
| 2016 | 81 | 2,341 |
| 2017 | 96 | 2,051 |
| 2018 | 96 | 2,044 |
| 2019 | 109 | 1,858 |
| 2020 | 84 | 2,167 |
| 2021 | 71 | 2,504 |
| 2022 | 99 | 1,986 |
| 2023 | 79 | 2,331 |
| 2024 | 68 | 2,602 |
| 2025 | 89 | 2,113 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | 1,729 |
| 2012 | 13 | 2,095 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,887 |
| 2014 | 28 | 1,204 |
| 2015 | 20 | 1,549 |
| 2016 | 16 | 1,834 |
| 2017 | 17 | 1,733 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,977 |
| 2019 | 21 | 1,439 |
| 2020 | 14 | 1,939 |
| 2021 | 15 | 1,866 |
| 2022 | 14 | 1,948 |
| 2023 | 14 | 1,959 |
| 2024 | 8 | 3,015 |
| 2025 | 7 | 3,333 |

## In other languages

- Catalan: Prudència
- French: Prudence
- Polish: Prudencja

## People named Prudence

- Prudence Crandall, Civil rights pioneer, educator, temperance advocate, Connecticut's official State Heroine 
- Prudence Heward, Canadian artist (1896-1947)
- Prudence Fowler, cyclist from New Zealand (*2003)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.