Pramod

Boys' name

Joy, delight, happiness

Pramod has been given to 16 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 2005, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Pramod, 2011

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pramod: meaning, origin, and history

Joy, delight, happiness

Sanskrit

What Pramod means

Pramod means “joy, delight, happiness”, associated with pramoda.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रमोद (pramoda, “joy, delight, happiness”).

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Origin, language, and formation

Pramod is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Pramod between 2001 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2005; its best national rank was #11,115 in 2005.

How common is Pramod?

Pramod had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011: 1 in 732,000; 5 of 3,657,935 births
Among boys only: 1 in 380,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2011: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 507,099 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Pramod 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 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pramod. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pramods were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pramod was born before 2005 — so the typical Pramod is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 68.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 16; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 68.8% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Pramod 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 2005 (6)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #11,115; 2005

Spellings of Pramod

Pramod is not the most common spelling — Ramon is, with 96.6% against Pramod's 0.02%.

Ramon96.6%77,429
Ramond2.3%1,813
Primo1.1%874
Pramod0.02%16

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.

Pramod 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: #11,115; 2005
Peak year: 2005; 6 that year
First recorded: 2001
Last recorded: 2011
All-time count: 16
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Pramod

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

Prayer Praize Pranab Prashiv Pransh Prajit Pranith Prahan Prayansh Prayaan Prayag Pranil Prayas Pragyan Praneet Pranjal Prakhar Praveer Prabhas Pramit Prabin Prajin Prabal Prayash

Sibling names for Pramod

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

Jaci Yahaira Anisa Jamya Yajaira Anjali Anneliese Annalisa

For a brother

Braulio Johnpaul Jamarion Kenyon Yair Kadin Lavon Tye

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