Prentice

Where Prentice comes from

Prentice hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1834
    Prentice Mulford born
    American writer
  2. 1884
    First appearance
    #848 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1895
    Prentice Cooper born
    American politician
  4. 1939
    Peak, #784
    60 babies named Prentice — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,227.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Prentice Mulford · American writer, 1834–1891
  • Prentice Cooper · American politician, 1895–1969
  • Prentice Marshall · American judge, 1926–2004

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.