Girl
Prudence
Prudence is a girl's name, a rare find in the registry, that has stayed remarkably steady since peaking in the 1940s.
LatinLatin "prudentia"
EtymologyMeaning "wisdom, foresight"
Births by decade
1900s
217
1910s
444
1920s
634
1930s
547
1940s
952
1950s
550
1960s
350
1970s
537
1980s
118
1990s
70
2000s
250
2010s
576
Peaked in the 1940s · 5,245 total U.S. births since 1900