Promise

Where Promise comes from

The dictionaries list Promise as a given name — a female given name from English — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1975
    First appearance
    #9,067 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1993
    Promise Amukamara born
    Nigerian basketball player
  3. 2001
    Promise David born
    Canadian soccer player
  4. 2023
    Peak, #714
    395 babies named Promise — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes
  • Promise David · Canadian soccer player, born 2001
  • Promise Amukamara · Nigerian basketball player, born 1993
  • Promise Mthembu · South African gender, AIDS, and human rights activist, born 1975

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.