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Pranay

#8,078 in 2025Boys' name

Love, affection, romance

Pranay has been given to 480 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #8,078 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Pranay, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pranay: meaning, origin, and history

Love, affection, romance

Sanskrit

What Pranay means

Pranay means “love, affection, romance”, associated with praṇaya.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रणय (praṇaya, “love, affection, romance”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Pranay (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Pranay is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 480 boys were recorded with the name Pranay between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2010; its best national rank was #3,689 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,562 in 2020 to #8,078 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,845 in 2015 to #8,078 in 2025.

How common is Pranay?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,078
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pranay 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pranay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pranays were born

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

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
480
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Choose a decade

2000s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (220).

Is Pranay 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
−926
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,484
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,233
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.5%
Peak was 2010 (29)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,689
2010

Spellings of Pranay

Pranay is not the most common spelling — Randy is, with 96.5% against Pranay's 0.14%.

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 Pranay is used

Across 1910–2025, Pranay was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 483,412 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —

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

Pranay around the world

Where Pranay 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
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2003–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pranay by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,078
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,484
Best rank ever
#3,689
2010
Peak year
2010
29 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
480
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Pranay

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

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Sibling names for Pranay

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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