Praise — #3846 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Praise

The Social Security Administration has registered 868 babies named Praise between 1990 and 2024, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Praise currently holds the #3846 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 55 babies received it in a single year. Praise is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 370 additional births since 2001.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Praise performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 392 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Praise shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 92 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Maryland and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Praise in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Praise in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 868 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.