Promise — #819 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Promise

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,089 babies named Promise between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Promise currently holds the #819 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 393 babies received it in a single year. Promise is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 394 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Promise performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,429 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Promise shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 458 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Promise in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Promise 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 6,089 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.