Providence

loc · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Providence is a name, most frequently recorded in the Bahamas. It appears chiefly in English and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Divine care or direction, the will of God or the gods; the grace of God; fate or fortune.

rarermore common
  • BSBahamas1 in 19◐
  • USUnited States1 in 657K
  • VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 265

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈964 ●

across 7 countries

Sources
170 ●

8.8K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 265 ◐

St. Vincent & Grenadines

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Providence- in VC St. Vincent & Grenadines.

Meaning & origin●

Divine care or direction, the will of God or the gods; the grace of God; fate or fortune.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Providence is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BS Bahamas—78,04921 rec.——Providence2
GB United Kingdom—581339 rec.——Providence35
US United States—5067.2K rec.1 in 657K530Providence170
CA Canada—504182 rec.—1Providence35
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines#633382△18 rec.1 in 265382Providence-8
RU Russia—12414 rec.——Providence2
KY Cayman Islands—640 rec.——Providence1
GY Guyana—6050 rec.1 in 13K60—3
AU Australia—19118 rec.——Providence10
FR France—8△1 rec.1 in 8.5M8—1
PT Portugal—80 rec.——Providence1
KN St. Kitts & Nevis—6△2 rec.1 in 9K6—3

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English2.3M70%
  • Indonesian5.1K1%
  • Finnish1.8K1%
  • Spanish2601%
  • Portuguese1171%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,342,21270%
Indonesian5,1161%
Finnish1,8401%
Spanish2601%
Portuguese1171%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Providence is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English (St. Vincent & Grenadines) surname123 records spelled Providence2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in St. Vincent & Grenadines

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Providence is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, divine guidance; US pi. name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Provincetovi/n

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, town. MA

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In fro, providence (manifestation of divine care or direction)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, pēc reliģiskiem vai mītiskiem priekšstatiem - augstākā griba, kas lemj visas pasaules likteņus; arī iepriekšēja (kā) nolemtība

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

010203019201940196019802000202029 · 1924

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Providence in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1905–2025
Yearrecords
19055
19075
19096
191011
19117
19125
19138
191410
191517
191625
191725
191816
191912
192012
192119
192217
192316
192429
192514
192613
192714
192814
19298
193017
193113
193210
193312
193411
193511
193712
193811
19396
19408
19418
194212
19435
19456
19465
19477
19498
19506
19515
19578
19586
19605
19615
19666
20008
20015
20026
20036
20058
200610
20077
20088
200910
201011
20119
20127
201314
201412
201511
201612
20176
201810
201910
20205
20216
20228
20237
20249
20258

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 72 years between 1905–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Providence
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020530#43,829
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010506#42,790
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020484#19,735
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)2025382#45
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000375#52,077
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 2025202560#565
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202048#19,735
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)192429—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#21,320
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#22,699
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)191725—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)191625—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 108 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Providence?
We estimate roughly 964 people bear Providence (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Providence have the most bearers?
Providence is most frequently recorded in the Bahamas, where it is most often spelled providence.
How common is Providence compared with other names?
In St. Vincent & Grenadines, Providence is the 633rd most common surname of 1,182 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Providence mean?
Recorded meaning: Divine care or direction, the will of God or the gods; the grace of God; fate or fortune.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Providence” — the 633rd most common surname in St. Vincent & Grenadines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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