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Pranshu

Boys' name

High, tall, long, lofty, through प्रांशु

Pranshu has been given to 84 babies in the U.S. since 2003. 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 2010, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Pranshu, 2024

1 in 557,000

Pranshu over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pranshu: meaning, origin, and history

High, tall, long, lofty, through प्रांशु

Sanskrit

What Pranshu means

Pranshu belongs to the name family reached through Pranshu → प्रांशु. Its meaning is “high, tall, long, lofty”.

Origin, language, and formation

Pranshu is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Pranshu comes through Sanskrit प्रांशु.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include प्रांशु.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 84 boys were recorded with the name Pranshu between 2003 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2010; its best national rank was #7,977 in 2010.

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 Pranshu?

Pranshu 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 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pranshu 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 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pranshu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pranshus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pranshu was born before 2013 — so the typical Pranshu is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
84
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Pranshu 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (10)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,977
2010

Pranshu around the world

Where Pranshu 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
    2011–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015

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

Pranshu 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
#7,977
2010
Peak year
2010
10 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
84
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pranshu

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

PragyanPrajwalPranithPranshPraneelPradyunPrathikPratherPradeepPrabhavPratyushPranishPrahladPrakashPrathamPrayanPraxtonPrattPraneshPranitPrayerPraveenPrashivPrateek

Sibling names for Pranshu

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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