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Pranav

#2,440 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Pranav has been given to 4,225 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #2,440 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 236 recorded.

Babies named Pranav, 2025

1 in 59,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pranav: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pranav means

Pranav is a given name.

The naming story behind Pranav

Wikidata records Pranav as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q121599083, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,225 boys were recorded with the name Pranav between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 236 in 2004; its best national rank was #771 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,887 in 2020 to #2,440 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,331 in 2015 to #2,440 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.

How common is Pranav?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 59,200
56 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 30,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,440
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pranav 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 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pranav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pranavs were born

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

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,225
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (2,010).

Is Pranav 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
−160
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−553
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,109
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.7%
Peak was 2004 (236)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#771
2004

Spellings of Pranav

Pranav is the most-used spelling, taking 49.4% of the 8,554 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Pranav is used

Across 2016–2025, Pranav was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 21,287 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 9,091
  2. 2California1 in 12,500
  3. 3Ohio1 in 12,500
  4. 4Texas1 in 16,667
  5. 5Illinois1 in 20,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 20,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 20,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Pranav around the world

Where Pranav 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
    1996–2025
    #1,124
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2007–2014
    #715
    in 2014
  • France
    2012–2023
    #5,854
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #1,105
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Pranav

People whose public names include Pranav, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Pranav by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,440
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 553
Best rank ever
#771
2004
Peak year
2004
236 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,225
Count in 2025
56

Names similar to Pranav

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

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Names with a curve like Pranav

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Pranav, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Pranav

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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