Promise Girl
How popular is Promise?
#823 girl name in 2025
330 baby girls were named Promise in the US in 2025, making it the 823rd most popular girl name. Another 18 boys got the name (#5,207 for boys).
Promise popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #823 for girls (▼ 4 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 330 girls, 18 boys |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+34% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,068 in 2015, #852 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2023 (395 girls) |
| Highest rank | #714 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 1975 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 6% boys, 94% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Promise counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Promise family of names ranked #706 for girls in 2025 (#719 the year before), with 374 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Promise | 330 | 88% |
| Promyse | 44 | 12% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Promise is most popular
Babies named Promise per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 0.9 per 1,000 (43 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.9 per 1,000 (79 girls)
- Georgia: 0.9 per 1,000 (197 girls)
- District of Columbia: 0.8 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.6 per 1,000 (50 girls)
Promise by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 49 | #4,424 |
| 1980s | 143 | #3,620 |
| 1990s | 372 | #2,325 |
| 2000s | 1,296 | #1,228 |
| 2010s | 2,430 | #843 |
| 2020s | 2,136 | #714 |
Girl names about as popular as Promise
Questions
- Is Promise a boy or girl name?
- Promise is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 94% of babies named Promise were girls.
- How popular is the name Promise?
- 330 baby girls were named Promise in the US in 2025, making it the 823rd most popular girl name. Another 18 boys got the name (#5,207 for boys).
- When was Promise most popular?
- Promise peaked in 2023, when 395 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #714 in 2023.
- How many people are named Promise?
- 6,838 babies have been named Promise in the US since 1880. We estimate about 6,792 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Promise most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Promise was most common in Mississippi, at 0.9 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.