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Prabhat

Boys' name

Shone forth, begun to become clear or light, through प्रभात

Prabhat has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2009. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Prabhat, 2009

1 in 637,000

Prabhat over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Prabhat: meaning, origin, and history

Shone forth, begun to become clear or light, through प्रभात

Sanskrit

What Prabhat means

Prabhat belongs to the name family reached through Prabhat → प्रभात. Its meaning is “shone forth, begun to become clear or light”.

Origin, language, and formation

Prabhat is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Prabhat comes through Sanskrit प्रभात.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include प्रभात.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Prabhat between 2009 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2009; its best national rank was #12,100 in 2009.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Prabhat?

Prabhat had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 637,000
6 of 3,820,315 births
Among boys only
1 in 331,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
441,341 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Prabhat sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 441,341 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Prabhat. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Prabhats were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Prabhat was born before 2009 — so the typical Prabhat is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
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2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Prabhat rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (6)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#12,100
2009

Prabhat around the world

Where Prabhat ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1964–1964
    #557
    in 1964

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Prabhat by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#12,100
2009
Peak year
2009
6 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Prabhat

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

PrashivPranabPraizePrayanshPrabjotPrakritPrasoonPrayushPranithPrakharPraveerPrabhasPraneetPrayerPrayasPrayaanPrajedesPraxedisPramitPradhyunPraharshPrabinPrajinPrabal

Sibling names for Prabhat

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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