girls:
63 births since 1918
#5653 (1st percentile)
boys:
3.9k births since 1884
#1974 (57th percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1884
#4357 (44th percentile)
The name Prentice is the #4,357 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,979 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 43.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,974 (56.9% percentile) for all time with 3,916 births since 1884. For girls, it ranks #5,653 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 63 births since 1918.
Prentice first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for boys and 1918 for girls). Birth data for Prentice is available in 126 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (126 years for boys and 11 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Prentice has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Prentice reached its peak popularity in 1939, achieving the 10.6% percentile (ranked #467) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 62 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Prentice ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 5.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Prentice reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Prentice".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Prentice. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.8% confident that Prentice is pronounced as PREHN-tihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PREHN-tuhs, at 12.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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