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Prateek

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Pratik

Prateek has been given to 228 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 16 recorded.

Babies named Prateek, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Prateek: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Pratik

Sanskrit

What Prateek means

Prateek is a alternate transcription of Pratik.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Prateek is used in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Prateek → Pratik. The family’s meaning is “look, appearance”, recorded in the naming reference for Pratik.

Origin, language, and formation

Prateek is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pratik.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 228 boys were recorded with the name Prateek between 1989 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2010; its best national rank was #5,242 in 2000.

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 Prateek?

Prateek had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Prateek 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Prateek. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Prateeks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Prateek was born before 2004 — so the typical Prateek is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
228
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (101).

Is Prateek 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 2010 (16)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,242
2000

Spellings of Prateek

Prateek is not the most common spelling — Pratik is, with 71.0% against Prateek's 29.0%.

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 Prateek is used

Across 1910–2025, Prateek was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,452,725 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. Prateek has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Prateek around the world

Where Prateek 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
    2015–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #1,710
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #419
    in 2006

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

Prateek 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
#5,242
2000
Peak year
2010
16 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
228
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Prateek

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

PraneelPratheekPrathamPrayanPrajwalPratyushPragyanPraveenPraisePranayPranithPranshPranishPrabhavXyleekPrattPrashantPrathikPranshuPradyunPratherPradeepPrabhjotShameek

Sibling names for Prateek

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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