Prudencio — boys' name
401 babies named Prudencio in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1930. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
17% of everyone ever named Prudencio was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Prudencio in 1930 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Prudencio
The Social Security Administration has registered 401 babies named Prudencio between 1915 and 2007, spanning 93 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Prudencio currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1930, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Prudencio performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 68 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Prudencio shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 79 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Prudencio in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Prudencio 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 401 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.
Prudencio at a glance
Last recorded 2007Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Prudencio popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–1915
- Peak year (1930)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 93 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2007.
401 total births across 93 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1930 with 15 births in a single year.
Prudencio by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 68 births that decade — 17% of Prudencio's all-time total
Prudencio decade highlights
- Peak decade 68 births
- Runner-up 56 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Prudencio's strongest decade
68 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 17% of all-time use.
Prudencio by state
Where Prudencio concentrates geographically — total births since 1915
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 79 | 19.7% |
79 of 401 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 19.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 19.7% 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, 1915–2007 (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.