Praise
Praise is given to both girls and boys: 65 girls and 56 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,680 among girls’ names and #2,439 among boys’, #3,122 among all names counting both); 1,359 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Praise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Praise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Praise?
#2,680 among girls’ names, 2025
Praise rose from #4,567 in 2015 to #2,680 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 17.4 to 40.4 per million.
121 babies in 2025, the peak
Praise peaked in 2025, when 121 babies were given it (65 girls, #2,680 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 39 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,680 | 56 | #2,439 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,877 | 23 | #4,523 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,816 | 26 | #4,182 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,263 | 26 | #4,158 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,785 | 18 | #5,277 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,379 | 21 | #4,662 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,988 | 24 | #4,305 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,193 | 26 | #4,076 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,427 | 27 | #3,951 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,570 | 20 | #4,899 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,567 | 27 | #3,959 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,085 | 17 | #5,422 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,625 | 14 | #6,161 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,462 | 12 | #6,925 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,650 | 14 | #6,165 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,332 | 13 | #6,611 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,045 | 8 | #9,645 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,708 | 13 | #6,665 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,641 | 8 | #9,532 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,238 | 9 | #8,560 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,561 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,735 | 11 | #6,860 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,105 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,323 | 5 | #12,012 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,890 | 8 | #8,111 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,470 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,650 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,893 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,292 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,279 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,931 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,751 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,475 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Praise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,359 Americans recorded as Praise, 69% are girls and 31% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Praise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Praise, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,359 Americans ever recorded as Praise. The median Praise alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,198 people named Praise (801 women and girls, 397 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 919 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 24 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 418 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 906 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Praise born?
The states with the most babies named Praise are Texas, Ohio and California, with 74% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 17 | #2,580 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,400 | 0.1× |
| California | 5 | #3,418 | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,725 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,623 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Praise with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Praise
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Praise and names like it
- Compare Praise and BlessingBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sPraise peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Praise since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Praise.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Praise alive today were born 2013-2025.
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