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Prashant

Boys' name

Calm, quiet

Prashant has been given to 278 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1985, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Prashant, 2016

1 in 612,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Prashant: meaning, origin, and history

Calm, quiet

Sanskrit

What Prashant means

Prashant means “calm, quiet”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Prashant is used in Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and Bengali.

Origin, language, and formation

Prashant is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 278 boys were recorded with the name Prashant between 1970 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1985; its best national rank was #3,338 in 1985.

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 Prashant?

Prashant had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 612,000
6 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 316,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
423,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Prashant 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 2016 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 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Prashant. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Prashants were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Prashant was born before 1989 — so the typical Prashant is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
278
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1980s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (104).

Is Prashant 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1985 (14)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,338
1985

Spellings of Prashant

Prashant is not the most common spelling — Rashan is, with 77.1% against Prashant's 22.9%.

  • Rashan77.1%935
  • Prashant22.9%278

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 Prashant is used

Across 1910–2025, Prashant was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Prashant has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Prashant around the world

Where Prashant 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
    1996–2002
    #2,254
    in 2002
  • Canada
    1997–2000
    #2,026
    in 2000

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

Prashant 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
#3,338
1985
Peak year
1985
14 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
278
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Prashant

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

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Sibling names for Prashant

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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