Prudie

Last seen for girls in 1954 at #5,148

Peak · girls
1882 · 7 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
354
since 1882

Prudie over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Prudie has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201890peak #740, 1882girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1929#4,5705
1928#3,4368
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1926#4,3066
1925#3,3629
1924#3,6658
1923#3,3509
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1921#4,4646
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1918#4,2916
1917#2,42813
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1913#2,1649
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1910#1,9357
1909#1,21912
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1904#1,6596
1903#1,4407
1902#1,07511
1901#1,2278
1900#1,17111
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1898#1,3797
1897#1,1678
1896#1,2927
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1889#1,2795
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1887#9377
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1885#1,0475
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First appearance
1882

The first year at least five girls were named Prudie! It came in at #740, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1883–1885, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Prudie is popular in 1890

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Prudie
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1954
  • Biggest jump: 521 spots in 1890 (#1,279 → #758)
  • Biggest drop: 574 spots in 1891 (#758 → #1,332)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1882
  • Peaked 1882 at #740 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1883, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1886–1887
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,644
  • Highest: 1 in 14,644 girls born in 1890 were named Prudie (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 323,653 girls born in 1954 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #740 in 1882, was only 1 in 15,407 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1890s
  • 24.3% of all girls named Prudie (86) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s31#740 (1882)#980
1890s86#758 (1890)#1,126
1900s74#1,075 (1902)#1,300
1910s65#1,935 (1910)#2,677
1920s63#2,731 (1920)#3,736
1930s13#3,376 (1936)#3,565
1940s10#4,420 (1941)#4,556
1950s12#4,908 (1952)#5,028

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Prudie in 1890

girls
#758
13 births · 1 in 14,644 girls

Top girls' names in 1890

  1. #1Mary12,078
  2. #2Anna5,233
  3. #3Elizabeth3,112
  4. #4Margaret3,100
  5. #5Emma2,980
  6. #6Florence2,744
  7. #7Ethel2,718
  8. #8Minnie2,650
  9. #9Clara2,496
  10. #10Bertha2,388
  11. #758Prudie13
More about 1890

girls

190,377 girls got a published name in 1890; 1 in 14,644 of them was named Prudie, which outranked 50.6% of the 1,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Prudie
  1. #727Thekla14
  2. #727Winona14
  3. #727Zelda14
  4. #758Prudie13
  5. #758Adell13
  6. #758Aileen13
  7. #758Amie13
  8. #791Alicia12
  9. #791Arie12
  10. #791Arminta12

Tied with 32 names at #758; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1889
Risers
  1. ↑ 612Electa#1,279 → #667
  2. ↑ 586Lular#1,279 → #693
  3. ↑ 548Alvena#1,147 → #599
  4. ↑ 521Prudie#1,279 → #758
  5. ↑ 505Tempie#1,147 → #642
Fallers
  1. ↓ 581Lella#757 → #1,338
  2. ↓ 581Vira#757 → #1,338
  3. ↓ 553Buena#657 → #1,210
  4. ↓ 536Roxana#802 → #1,338
  5. ↓ 499Fleda#839 → #1,338

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1890 →