Prudence

Where Prudence comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Prudence.

  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Prudence through the years
  1. 1803
    Prudence Crandall born
    Civil rights pioneer, educator, temperance advocate, Connecticut's official State Heroine
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #403 among girls with 17 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #740.
  4. 1896
    Prudence Heward born
    Canadian artist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English, one of the Puritan virtue names.
Namesakes
  • Prudence Crandall · Civil rights pioneer, educator, temperance advocate, Connecticut's official State Heroine, 1803–1890
  • Prudence Heward · Canadian artist, 1896–1947
  • Prudence Sekgodiso · South African middle-distance runner, born 2002
  • Prudence Liew · Hong Kong singer and actress, born 1964
  • Prudence Fowler · cyclist from New Zealand (*2003), born 2003

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.