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Pragya

Girls' name

Transliteration of प

Pragya has been given to 234 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 2018, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Pragya, 2024

1 in 418,000

Pragya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pragya: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of प

Hindi and Sanskrit

What Pragya means

Pragya is a transliteration of प.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Hindi प्रज्ञा (prajñā), from Sanskrit प्रज्ञा (prajñā). Doublet of Progya and Pirakya.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Pragya (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Pragya is used in English. Its origins include Hindi and Sanskrit.

Pragya comes through Sanskrit प्रज्ञा.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include प, Progya and Pirakya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 234 girls were recorded with the name Pragya between 2001 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2018; its best national rank was #6,720 in 2018.

How common is Pragya?

Pragya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pragya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pragya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pragyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pragya was born before 2014 — so the typical Pragya is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
234
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.3% of all recorded uses (113).

Is Pragya 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 2018 (18)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,720
2018

Spellings of Pragya

Pragya is not the most common spelling — Raya is, with 33.0% against Pragya's 0.96%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Pragya is used

Across 1910–2025, Pragya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,231,752 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Pragya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pragya around the world

Where Pragya 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.

  • England & Wales
    2019–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Pragya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,720
2018
Peak year
2018
18 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
234
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pragya

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

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Sibling names for Pragya

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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