Prudence
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About Prudence
The name Prudence is currently ranked #938 in U.S. births. and peaked for girls at #415 in 1880. It is currently rising in popularity. The name is most popular in PRUDENCE, PRUDENCE, and PRUDENCE.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,836 | 61 | 34.1 |
| 2015 | #2,613 | 69 | 38.7 |
| 2016 | #2,340 | 81 | 45.7 |
| 2017 | #2,050 | 96 | 55.6 |
| 2018 | #2,043 | 96 | 56.4 |
| 2019 | #1,858 | 109 | 64.9 |
| 2020 | #2,187 | 83 | 51.3 |
| 2021 | #2,502 | 71 | 43.3 |
| 2022 | #1,985 | 99 | 60.4 |
| 2023 | #2,328 | 79 | 49.2 |
| 2024 | #2,588 | 68 | 42 |
| 2025 | #2,113 | 89 | 55.4 |
World rankings
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Famous Prudences
- Prudence Anne Villiers Farrow Bruns
author and sister of Mia Farrow
- Prudence Liew (Mei
Gwan), Hong Kong pop singer
- Prudence Crandall
American Quaker schoolteacher and civil rights activist
- Prudence Ann McIntyre
American singer of duo Prudence & Patience
- Prudence Heward
Canadian painter
- Prudence Johnson
American jazz singer
- (Prudence) Richarda Eveleyn Morrow
Tate, English aviatrix; first female pilot to fly around the world
Prudence in pop culture
- Prudence "Prue" Halliwell
character on TV's Charmed
- Prudence
character in the movie "Across the Universe," inspired by the Beatles' "Dear Prudence"
- Prudence Everett
character on TV's "Nanny and the Professor"
- Prudence Alessandra "Rue" Maccon Akeldama
character in Gail Carriger's Timeless and Custard Protocol series
- Prudence Melinda Halliwell
Piper and Leo's daughter on TV's "Charmed"
- Prudence Johnna "P.J." Halliwell
Phoebe and Coop's daughter in the Charmed comics
- Prudence
girl in book series "Once Upon a Potty"
- Prudence Macintyre
character in TV movies "Dear Prudence" and "Perfectly Prudence"
- Prudence Standish
character on TV soap "Passions"
- Prudence
character in Disney's "Cinderella II: Dreams Come True"
- Prudence Rutherford
character in Nancy Drew computer games
- Prudence
a pretty girl with no sense of humor in the "St Clare" book series by Enid Blyton
- "Prudence and the Pill
" 1968 movie
- "Dear Prudence
" song by the Beatles
- "Dear Prudence
" long,running advice column
- Prudence Cruff
character in Elizabeth George Speare's children's book "The Witch of Blackbird Pond"
- Prudence Blackwood
character on “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”
Variations & nicknames
- PrudenciaSpanish
- PrewFrench
- PrudenziaFrench
- PrudentianeFrench
- PrewdenceFrench
- PrueFrench
