Unisex name · since 2022
Prophecy
Prophecy has 16 recorded births since 2022 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #49,104 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,698 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 16
- born since 2022
- 2020s
- peak decade
Prophecy currently ranks #14698 among unisex names in America, with 16 babies recorded since 2022.
Prophecy has 16 recorded births among girls since 2022, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #14698 as of the latest data, more common than 15% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2022 to 2025.
- #49,104 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,698 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 16 born since 2022
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Prophecy ranks #49,104 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,698 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 16 born since 2022, peaking in the 2020s.
- #49,104 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,698 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 16
- born since 2022
- 2020s
- peak decade
Prophecy's 16 recorded births place it above 31.73% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Prophecy compares
16 6th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Prophecy's all-time total is 96% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Prophecy | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 16 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 21 | 19,840 |
Prophecy's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Prophecy's full recorded timeline at 2023, 69% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 31% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2022, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Prophecy popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 4 years of records
Prophecy popularity over time - boys
16 total births recorded since 2022 (Prophecy as boys' name)
Prophecy by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (16 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Prophecy's strongest decade.
16 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Prophecy births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
16 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 16 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Prophecy: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2025)
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2022–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Prophecy draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.