Promise
Promise is a baby name of English origin, meaning A solemn vow.
What Promise means
A solemn vow.
Promise sits at 7 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Promise comes from
English names come from a long layering of Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, and biblical sources. Many began as surnames, place names, or occupations before they were ever used as first names.
Promise is recorded as English in origin. Browse other English names.
How popular is Promise?
In the baby name rankings we track, Promise falls outside the top 100. That puts it in the broad middle ground where most names live: familiar to those who know it, uncommon enough to still feel like a choice.
The character of Promise
We group Promise under Hope and faith — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Promise
These share Promise's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Faith — Complete trust and devotion.
- Hope — Optimism; trust in the future.
- Tendai — Be thankful.
- Themba — Trust and hope.
- Presley — Priest's meadow.
- Haven — A safe refuge.
- Justice — Fairness and righteousness.
- Preston — Priest's town.
- Elsie — Pledged to God.
- Future — The time yet to come.
- Holly — The holly tree; holiness.
- Jackson — Son of Jack; God is gracious.
More English names
- Primrose — First rose; first flower of spring.
- Rain — Falling water; a blessing.
- Preston — Priest's town.
- Raven — The wise black bird.
- Presley — Priest's meadow.
- Reed — Red-haired; the riverside reed.
- Posy — A small bunch of flowers.
- Reginald — Counsel power; a wise ruler.
- Poppy — The bright red poppy flower.
- Reign — Sovereign rule; royal power.