Prosper
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births
Given to boys 89.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1881 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 678since 1881
Prosper over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | #3,450 | 33 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | #2,674 | 49 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #3,005 | 41 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #2,793 | 46 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #2,972 | 41 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #4,275 | 23 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #3,899 | 27 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #4,094 | 25 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | — | #5,124 | 18 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,407 | 22 | |
| 2014 | — | #7,562 | 10 | |
| 2013 | — | #5,923 | 14 | |
| 2012 | — | #9,709 | 7 | |
| 2011 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2010 | — | #8,139 | 9 | |
| 2009 | — | #8,310 | 9 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,763 | 12 | |
| 2007 | — | #8,915 | 8 | |
| 2006 | — | #12,055 | 5 | |
| 2005 | — | — | ||
| 2004 | — | #8,927 | 7 | |
| 2003 | — | — | ||
| 2002 | — | #9,392 | 6 | |
| 2001 | — | #9,243 | 6 | |
| 2000 | — | #7,416 | 8 | |
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| 1998 | — | #7,560 | 7 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
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| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
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| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,651 | 9 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,980 | 8 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
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| 1926 | — | #2,904 | 9 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,936 | 9 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,023 | 9 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,331 | 13 | |
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| 1921 | — | #2,502 | 12 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,208 | 8 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,998 | 16 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,091 | 14 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,043 | 14 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,458 | 10 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,651 | 7 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,821 | 5 | |
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| 1902 | — | #1,137 | 5 | |
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| 1894 | — | #1,074 | 5 | |
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| 1884 | — | #971 | 5 | |
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| 1881 | — | #866 | 5 | |
| 1880 | — | — | ||
First appearance
1881
The first year at least five boys were named Prosper! It came in at #866, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1881–1913, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 776 spots since 2024 (#2,674 → #3,450)
- 825 spots since 2020 (#4,275 → #3,450)
- 957 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #3,450)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1881
- Peaked 1881 at #866 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1882, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1881–1884
Share of babies · boys
1 in 20,147
- Highest: 1 in 20,147 boys born in 1881 were named Prosper (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 51,760 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 34.4% of all boys named Prosper (233) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | #866 (1881) | #919 |
| 1890s | 5 | #1,074 (1894) | #1,074 |
| 1900s | 5 | #1,137 (1902) | #1,137 |
| 1910s | 72 | #1,998 (1918) | #2,543 |
| 1920s | 74 | #2,331 (1923) | #2,948 |
| 1930s | 38 | #2,651 (1931) | #3,268 |
| 1940s | 10 | #3,338 (1945) | #3,536 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 7 | #7,560 (1998) | #7,560 |
| 2000s | 61 | #6,763 (2008) | #8,878 |
| 2010s | 163 | #3,899 (2019) | #6,095 |
| 2020s | 233 | #2,674 (2024) | #3,195 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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