How popular is “Prudence” in the USA?

Number of people named “Prudence” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Prudence” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Prudence” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Prudence” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Prudence” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Prudence” by birth year

This chart shows how “Prudence” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1880	17	0.000084374	17	100%
1881	9	0.000046708	9	100%
1882	7	0.000031598	7	100%
1883	11	0.000050704	11	100%
1884	8	0.000032859	8	100%
1885	14	0.000058127	14	100%
1886	19	0.000074418	19	100%
1887	10	0.000040422	10	100%
1888	20	0.000066784	20	100%
1889	17	0.000058835	17	100%
1890	19	0.000063039	19	100%
1891	15	0.000052324	15	100%
1892	16	0.000047851	16	100%
1893	22	0.000067646	22	100%
1894	21	0.000062004	21	100%
1895	14	0.000039884	14	100%
1896	17	0.000047555	17	100%
1897	12	0.000034586	12	100%
1898	27	0.000070782	27	100%
1899	16	0.000047165	16	100%
1900	28	0.000062187	28	100%
1901	18	0.000052051	18	100%
1902	22	0.000056887	22	100%
1903	19	0.000049843	19	100%
1904	19	0.00004709	19	100%
1905	17	0.000040102	17	100%
1906	22	0.000051348	22	100%
1907	25	0.000053718	25	100%
1908	17	0.00003479	17	100%
1909	30	0.000058683	30	100%
1910	18	0.000030472	18	100%
1911	22	0.000034147	22	100%
1912	39	0.000039471	39	100%
1913	40	0.000035177	40	100%
1914	29	0.000020475	29	100%
1915	42	0.00002292	42	100%
1916	58	0.000029983	58	100%
1917	74	0.000036876	74	100%
1918	67	0.00003086	67	100%
1919	55	0.000026063	55	100%
1920	74	0.000032705	74	100%
1921	55	0.00002356	55	100%
1922	58	0.000025337	58	100%
1923	57	0.000024756	57	100%
1924	63	0.000026453	63	100%
1925	84	0.000036	84	100%
1926	66	0.000028747	66	100%
1927	75	0.000032337	75	100%
1928	51	0.000022557	51	100%
1929	51	0.000023265	51	100%
1930	58	0.000026087	58	100%
1931	46	0.000021859	46	100%
1932	49	0.000023209	49	100%
1933	49	0.000024507	49	100%
1934	46	0.000022149	46	100%
1935	56	0.000026796	56	100%
1936	51	0.000024548	51	100%
1937	57	0.000026752	57	100%
1938	66	0.00002983	66	100%
1939	69	0.000031315	69	100%
1940	65	0.000028228	65	100%
1941	68	0.00002791	68	100%
1942	106	0.000038802	106	100%
1943	140	0.0000496	140	100%
1944	110	0.000040891	110	100%
1945	96	0.000036187	96	100%
1946	102	0.000031922	102	100%
1947	103	0.000028593	103	100%
1948	86	0.000024909	86	100%
1949	76	0.000021809	76	100%
1950	64	0.000018268	64	100%
1951	65	0.000017645	65	100%
1952	64	0.000016851	64	100%
1953	66	0.000017127	66	100%
1954	55	0.000013817	55	100%
1955	48	0.000011955	48	100%
1956	59	0.00001431	59	100%
1957	54	0.000012851	54	100%
1958	33	0.000007983	33	100%
1959	43	0.000010342	43	100%
1960	38	0.000009148	38	100%
1961	36	0.000008691	36	100%
1962	44	0.000010904	44	100%
1963	42	0.000010611	42	100%
1964	36	0.00000926	36	100%
1965	36	0.00000993	36	100%
1966	35	0.00001007	35	100%
1967	32	0.000009426	32	100%
1968	25	0.0000074	25	100%
1969	26	0.000007481	26	100%
1970	64	0.000017746	64	100%
1971	104	0.0000303	104	100%
1972	77	0.000024499	77	100%
1973	71	0.000023534	71	100%
1974	47	0.000015461	47	100%
1975	48	0.000015897	48	100%
1976	47	0.00001549	47	100%
1977	25	0.00000787	25	100%
1978	22	0.000006932	22	100%
1979	32	0.000009618	32	100%
1980	14	0.000004064	14	100%
1981	19	0.000005492	19	100%
1982	17	0.000004846	17	100%
1983	13	0.000003754	13	100%
1984	7	0.000002006	7	100%
1985	12	0.000003362	12	100%
1986	14	0.000003936	14	100%
1987	8	0.000002219	8	100%
1988	6	0.000001624	6	100%
1989	8	0.000002081	8	100%
1990	8	0.000002024	8	100%
1991	10	0.000002567	10	100%
1992	7	0.000001822	7	100%
1993	5	0.000001326	5	100%
1994	8	0.000002152	8	100%
1995	12	0.000003277	12	100%
1996	6	0.000001645	6	100%
1997	7	0.000001931	7	100%
1998	7	0.000001903	7	100%
2000	10	0.000002646	10	100%
2001	10	0.000002671	10	100%
2002	15	0.000004013	15	100%
2003	17	0.000004471	17	100%
2004	22	0.000005758	22	100%
2005	24	0.000006242	24	100%
2006	31	0.000007836	31	100%
2007	30	0.000007504	30	100%
2008	36	0.000009159	36	100%
2009	55	0.000014397	55	100%
2010	60	0.000016235	60	100%
2011	82	0.000022418	82	100%
2012	53	0.000014491	53	100%
2013	77	0.000021121	77	100%
2014	61	0.000016458	61	100%
2015	69	0.000018644	69	100%
2016	81	0.000022079	81	100%
2017	96	0.000026844	96	100%
2018	96	0.000027305	96	100%
2019	109	0.000031404	109	100%
2020	83	0.000024846	83	100%
2021	71	0.000020957	71	100%
2022	99	0.000029263	99	100%
2023	79	0.000023858	79	100%
2024	68	0.00002043	68	100%

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