Prajna

Girls' name

From Sanskrit प्रज्ञा; literal meaning unconfirmed

Prajna has been given to 135 babies in the U.S. since 2005. 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 2014, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Prajna, 2024

1 in 478,000

Prajna over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Prajna: meaning, origin, and history

From Sanskrit प्रज्ञा; literal meaning unconfirmed

Sanskrit

What Prajna means

Prajna is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Prajna is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Prajna comes through Sanskrit प्रज्ञा.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 135 girls were recorded with the name Prajna between 2005 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2014; its best national rank was #7,561 in 2014.

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 Prajna?

Prajna 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 478,000; 7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 231,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 331,009 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Prajna 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Prajna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Prajnas were born

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

Median birth year: 2014; About 11 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 57.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 135; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 57.8% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Prajna 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2014 (16)
Years since peak: 11; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 41.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,561; 2014

Spellings of Prajna

Prajna is not the most common spelling — Rayna is, with 40.9% against Prajna's 0.41%.

Rayna40.9%13,386
Raina38.1%12,453
Rana13.9%4,553
Raena5.1%1,653
Araina1.6%525
Prajna0.41%135

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 Prajna is used

Across 1910–2025, Prajna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

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. Prajna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Prajna around the world

Where Prajna 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
2011–2014
#4,003
in 2014

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

Prajna 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: #7,561; 2014
Peak year: 2014; 16 that year
First recorded: 2005
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 135
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Prajna

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

Prapti Prayer Pravya Pranika Pranshi Pranvi Pragya Praise Prairie Pragna Pranavi Prachi Sanjna Pragnya Pranathi Ajna Pranati Prarthana Prakriti Pravi Pranisha Pranita Prashi Pranjal

Sibling names for Prajna

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

Honesty Elayna Alaysia Montserrat Amia Adilene Yamileth Annabell

For a brother

Jai Vihaan Casen Gannon Constantine Cain Anders Branson

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