Pragyan

#9,481 in 2025Boys' name

Intelligence, wisdom

Pragyan has been given to 74 babies in the U.S. since 2010. In 2025 it ranked #9,481 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Pragyan, 2025

1 in 414,000

Pragyan over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pragyan: meaning, origin, and history

Intelligence, wisdom

Sanskrit

What Pragyan means

Pragyan means “intelligence, wisdom”, associated with prajñāna.

Origin, language, and formation

Pragyan is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 74 boys were recorded with the name Pragyan between 2010 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2023; its best national rank was #8,104 in 2023.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,543 in 2015 to #9,481 in 2025.

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 Pragyan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 213,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #9,481; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Pragyan 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 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pragyan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pragyans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pragyan was born before 2021 — so the typical Pragyan is around 4 today.

Median birth year: 2021; About 4 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 55.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 74; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 55.4% of all recorded uses (41).

Is Pragyan 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: +171; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: +4,062; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.60×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 80.0%; Peak was 2023 (10)
Years since peak: 2; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,104; 2023

Spellings of Pragyan

Pragyan is not the most common spelling — Brayan is, with 57.6% against Pragyan's 0.26%.

Brayan57.6%16,540
Rayan31.0%8,895
Rayyan11.2%3,221
Pragyan0.26%74

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.

Pragyan around the world

Where Pragyan 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
2023–2024
#3,689
in 2024

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

Pragyan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #9,481
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #8,104; 2023
Peak year: 2023; 10 that year
First recorded: 2010
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 74
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Pragyan

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

Prayan Prajwal Pranith Pransh Praneel Zaviyan Pradyun Pranshu Prather Pradeep Prathik Prahlad Prakash Prabhav Pratyush Praxton Pranish Pratham Aadhyan Aaliyan Pranesh Adhiyan Pratt Athiyan

Sibling names for Pragyan

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

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Karleigh Rhianna Adelle Leonor Keren Kendyl

For a brother

Aaden Kale Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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