Prudence
8
Babies in 2024
-71%
10-year change
2014
Peak · 28
-43%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Prudence
Prudence has been falling out of fashion as a UK girl's name. In 2024, 8 girls were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 71% on a decade earlier.
Prudence reached its peak in 2014, when 28 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,204 for UK girls that year. That's roughly 29% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 28 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 334 girls have been officially registered with the name Prudence in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 181 girls were registered with the name, starting from 28 in 2014 and ending at 8 in 2024.