girls:
5.7k births since 1975
#2197 (62nd percentile)
boys:
373 births since 1992
#4213 (8th percentile)
overall:
6.1k births since 1975
#3465 (55th percentile)
The name Promise is the #3,465 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,117 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 55.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,197 (61.6% percentile) for all time with 5,744 births since 1975. For boys, it ranks #4,213 (8.1% percentile) for all time with 373 births since 1992.
Promise first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for girls and 1992 for boys).
The name Promise has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.9% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 93.5% of babies named Promise were girls.
For girls, Promise reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 38.5% percentile (ranked #583) with 223 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 223 births per million (ranked 38.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1992, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Promise is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #583 (38.5% percentile) with 223 births per million.
For boys, Promise reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #891) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). Despite a peak around 2013, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Promise ranks #889 for boys (2.4% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 72.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Promise".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Promise. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.5% confident that Promise is pronounced as PRAH-mihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PRAH-muhs, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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