Pryde

Pryde, a creative respelling of the English word Pride, may be viewed in two ways.

On one hand, it has the positive associations of being proud of yourself and of celebrating your own achievements, qualities, origins, and successes. Someone (or something) can also be a source of pride, and given that a child may be their parent's "pride and joy", it's likely that this meaning and the positive one above are what that those who've chosen the name had in mind when selecting it.

On the other hand, however, pride is linked to vanity, self-conceit, and feelings of superiority. It is associated with an excessive kind of self-love that turns to arrogance. As such, Pryde might be considered both a virtue and an anti-virtue name at the same time.

Other things this word name brings to mind are Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a group of lions, and LGBTQ+ Pride, both the celebratory parades and the promotion of rights and equality.

More likely to appear as a surname, this word name was chosen in 2025 by actors KJ Smith and Skyh Black for their daughter Pryde JaNea.

While Pryde has never made the US stats, Pride has been given to around 90 boys since it first appeared in the data back in the 50s.

Pronounced PRYD.