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Praise

#2,680 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Price, worth

Praise has been given to 1,359 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #2,680 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 65 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 69% girls, 31% boys all-time.

Babies named Praise, 2025

1 in 51,000

Praise over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Praise over time

In 2025, Praise went to 54% girls and 46% boys.

19902025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Praise: meaning, origin, and history

Price, worth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Praise means

Praise means “price, worth”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 933 girls were recorded with the name Praise between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,680 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,379 in 2020 to #2,680 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,567 in 2015 to #2,680 in 2025.

In the United States, 426 boys were recorded with the name Praise between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 56 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,439 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,662 in 2020 to #2,439 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,959 in 2015 to #2,439 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Praise?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,000
65 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,680
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,353 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Praise sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 35,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Praise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Praises were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Praise was born before 2016 — so the typical Praise is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
933
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (392).

Is Praise rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,197
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+699
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,887
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (65)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,680
2025

Spellings of Praise

Praise is not the most common spelling — Paige is, with 90.0% against Praise's 0.57%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Praise is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Praise was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 41,381 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 12,500
  2. 2Texas1 in 25,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 50,000
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Praise is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Praise was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 390,102 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Praise has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Praise around the world

Where Praise ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2025
    #1,454
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2021–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2015
    #896
    in 2015
  • France
    2009–2024
    #4,970
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2010–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Praise by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,680
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 699
Best rank ever
#2,680
2025
Peak year
2025
65 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
933
Count in 2025
65

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,439
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,223
Best rank ever
#2,439
2025
Peak year
2025
56 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
426
Count in 2025
56

Names similar to Praise

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Praise

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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