Prentiss
Prentiss is a boy's name that peaked in 1943, when it was the 980th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 1,700 Prentisses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Prentiss boys named Prentiss
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,789
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 50
- Peak year
- 1943
- Best rank
- 980th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1887
- Girls / boys
- 65 / 2,724
How old the living Prentisses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,789 babies given the name since 1887, about 1,700 are alive — 60 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Prentiss is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Prentiss is most concentrated in Mississippi (60.0×), Louisiana (6.9×), South Carolina (2.1×), Illinois (0.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1943
The most popular boys’ names the year Prentiss peaked:
Prentiss elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Prentiss | 20 | 5,571st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Prentiss against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.