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Prudencio

Boys' name

Form of Prudentius

Prudencio has been given to 401 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1930, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Prudencio, 2007

1 in 666,000

Prudencio over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Prudencio: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Prudentius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Prudencio means

Prudencio is a form of Prudentius.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Prudencio is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /pɾu.ˈðen.θjo/ and /pɾu.ˈðen.sjo/ for Prudencio.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Prudentius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Prudencio is pronounced /pɾuˈdenθjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 401 boys were recorded with the name Prudencio between 1915 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1930; its best national rank was #2,050 in 1930.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Prudencio?

Prudencio had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 666,000
6 of 3,997,748 births
Among boys only
1 in 346,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
461,839 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Prudencio sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 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 461,839 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Prudencio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Prudencios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Prudencio was born before 1951 — so the typical Prudencio is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
208
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Choose a decade

1920s — 17.0% of all recorded uses (68).

Is Prudencio 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1930 (15)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,050
1930

Where Prudencio is used

Across 1910–2025, Prudencio was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 167,892 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000

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. Prudencio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Prudencio around the world

Where Prudencio 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.

  • France
    1965–1965
    #1,644
    in 1965

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Prudencio by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,050
1930
Peak year
1930
15 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
401
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Prudencio

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

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Sibling names for Prudencio

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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