Providence
#11,680 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Providence has been given to 724 babies in the U.S. since 1905. In 2025 it ranked #11,680 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 29 recorded.
Babies named Providence, 2025
1 in 414,000
Providence over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Providence?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,680
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Providence sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Providence. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Providences were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Providence was born before 1934 — so the typical Providence is around 91 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 21.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 28.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 254
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 21.5% of all recorded uses (156).
Is Providence 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
- −776
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +5,287
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,682
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.73×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 27.6%
- Peak was 1924 (29)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.4% average annual change
Where Providence is used
Across 1910–2025, Providence was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 94,520 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 50,000
- 2Pennsylvania1 in —
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. Providence has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Providence around the world
Where Providence 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.
- France1901–1915#998in 1915
- Canada1991–2020#3,144in 2020
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Providence by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Providence
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Providence
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.