Prescott — #4071 US boys' name
1,676 babies named Prescott in U.S. Social Security records since 1913, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 71% of names given to boys today.
17% of everyone ever named Prescott was born in this single decade.
51 babies were named Prescott in 2017 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Prescott
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,676 babies named Prescott between 1913 and 2024, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Prescott currently holds the #4071 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 51 babies received it in a single year. Prescott is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 120 additional births since 2013.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Prescott performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 278 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Prescott shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 50 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Prescott in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Prescott 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 1,676 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.
Prescott at a glance
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Current rank
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Prescott popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1913
- Peak year (2017)
- 51
- Annual births at peak — across 112 years of records
Currently ranks #4071 among boys.
1,676 total births across 112 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2017 with 51 births in a single year.
Prescott popularity over time — girls
120 total births recorded since 2013 (Prescott as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Prescott accounts for 7% of total recorded use across both genders.
Prescott by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 278 births that decade — 17% of Prescott's all-time total
Prescott decade highlights
- Peak decade 278 births
- Runner-up 221 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Prescott's strongest decade
278 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 17% of all-time use.
Prescott by state
Where Prescott concentrates geographically — total births since 1913
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 50 | 3.0% |
| #2 | Texas | | 46 | 2.7% |
| #3 | Massachusetts | | 6 | 0.4% |
50 of 1,676 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 3.0% of nationwide
- Texas 2.7% of nationwide
- Massachusetts 0.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1913–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.