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Prakhar

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Prakhar has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2008. 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 2008, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Prakhar, 2012

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Prakhar: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Prakhar means

Prakhar is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Prakhar is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Prakhar between 2008 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2008; its best national rank was #12,188 in 2008.

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 Prakhar?

Prakhar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 379,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Prakhar 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 2012 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 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Prakhar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Prakhars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Prakhar was born before 2008 — so the typical Prakhar is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Prakhar 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2008 (6)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#12,188
2008

Prakhar 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
—
Best rank ever
#12,188
2008
Peak year
2008
6 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Prakhar

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

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Sibling names for Prakhar

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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