Promise

What Promise means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Promise yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note 330 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Promise?

US: Rising: up from #1068 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 395 girls got the name (#714 that year). First in the US records in 1975.

How common

• About 1 in 4,871 baby girls in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MS (1.01 per 1,000 girls), SC (0.98 per 1,000 girls), AR (0.94 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Promise is #823 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 94.8% of US babies named Promise were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Promyse44 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Promise

Girls

• Willow#44From the word “willow”^*
• Rowan#249“little red one”^*
• Juniper#100Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #427 in 2015, #100 in 2025
• Dahlia#215Editor’s note Up from #412 in 2015 to #215 in 2025 in the US
• Journey#411Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #411 vs #3,333 in 2025
• Sienna#94Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #229 in 2015, #94 in 2025

For a brother

• Rowan#59“little red one”^*
• Deacon#561Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1971, with 15 babies
• Alden#598“old + friend”^*
• Ocean#717“sea”^*
• Tate#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #420 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Briar#686Editor’s note Used for both: 34% of US babies named Briar in 2025 were boys

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Promise’s. Rank is US 2025.