girls:
65 births since 1951
#5651 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.7k births since 1887
#2419 (47th percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1887
#5119 (34th percentile)
The name Prentiss is the #5,119 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,781 recorded births since 1887. This represents the 33.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,419 (47.2% percentile) for all time with 2,716 births since 1887. For girls, it ranks #5,651 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 65 births since 1951.
Prentiss first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1887 (1887 for boys and 1951 for girls). Birth data for Prentiss is available in 123 out of the 137 years between 1887 and 2023 (123 years for boys and 10 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 Prentiss has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Prentiss reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 7.4% percentile (ranked #527) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 57 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Prentiss ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 5.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Prentiss reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #734) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Prentiss".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Prentiss is pronounced as PREHN-tihs, which has 2 syllables.
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