Prentis
Prentis was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,260 Americans have been recorded with it between 1904 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Prentis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Prentis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,592, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1942, the peak
Prentis peaked in 1942, when 27 boys were given it, #1,353 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #13,592 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,395 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,900 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 10 | #8,018 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,375 | 3.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,015 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,247 | 4.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,356 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,973 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,770 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 6 | #8,411 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,166 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,595 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,733 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,842 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,319 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,211 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,339 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,456 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,071 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,244 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,752 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,208 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,747 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,761 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,156 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,929 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,511 | 10.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,797 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,476 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,783 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,775 | 7.4 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,847 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 20 | #1,901 | 11.2 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,869 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,726 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,189 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,345 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 9 | #3,005 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,385 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,254 | 6.8 |
| 1961 | 9 | #3,046 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,648 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,087 | 7.5 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,238 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,973 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 20 | #1,804 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,709 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,096 | 7.4 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,877 | 9.1 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,056 | 7.7 |
| 1951 | 20 | #1,718 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 20 | #1,691 | 11.2 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,093 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 22 | #1,595 | 12.5 |
| 1947 | 22 | #1,639 | 12.0 |
| 1946 | 21 | #1,595 | 12.9 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,616 | 13.4 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,960 | 10.3 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,516 | 15.4 |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,353 | 19.5 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,673 | 14.7 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,728 | 14.7 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,945 | 12.6 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,070 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,897 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,628 | 17.4 |
| 1935 | 16 | #1,820 | 15.4 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,229 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,692 | 18.2 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,597 | 9.6 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,300 | 11.5 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,416 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,662 | 19.5 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,746 | 18.1 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,108 | 14.2 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,057 | 14.4 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,619 | 20.6 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,591 | 10.6 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,115 | 8.2 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,812 | 18.4 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,130 | 14.5 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,313 | 13.2 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,794 | 19.4 |
| 1918 | 18 | #1,887 | 17.8 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,390 | 13.0 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,022 | 16.9 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,418 | 13.0 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,631 | 7.6 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,446 | 13.7 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,714 | 23.3 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,286 | 41.2 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,245 | 42.7 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,216 | 45.1 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,358 | 39.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Prentis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Prentis has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Prentis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Prentis, and how old are they?
An estimated 636 Americans named Prentis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 42 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 551 people named Prentis (25 women and girls, 526 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 717 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,049 babies since 1880, Prentis is the second most given (31% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Prentis
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 Prentis and names like it
- Compare Prentis and PrentissBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sPrentis peaked in 1942.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Prentis since 1910.
- The top names of 1942The year the most babies were named Prentis.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Prentis alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with PMost given first.