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Pratham

#7,551 in 2025Boys' name

First, foremost, through प्रथम

Pratham has been given to 448 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #7,551 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Pratham, 2025

1 in 301,000

Pratham over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pratham: meaning, origin, and history

First, foremost, through प्रथम

Sanskrit

What Pratham means

Pratham belongs to the name family reached through Pratham → प्रथम. Its meaning is “first, foremost”.

Origin, language, and formation

Pratham is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Pratham comes through Sanskrit प्रथम.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include प्रथम.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 448 boys were recorded with the name Pratham between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2002; its best national rank was #2,534 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,324 in 2020 to #7,551 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,846 in 2015 to #7,551 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pratham?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,551
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pratham 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pratham. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Prathams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pratham was born before 2010 — so the typical Pratham is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
49.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
448
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 49.1% of all recorded uses (220).

Is Pratham 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
−398
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,773
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,705
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.2%
Peak was 2002 (39)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,534
2002

Spellings of Pratham

Pratham is not the most common spelling — Graham is, with 98.3% against Pratham's 0.72%.

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 Pratham is used

Across 1910–2025, Pratham was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 831,286 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Pratham has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pratham around the world

Where Pratham 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
    2002–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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.

Pratham by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,551
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,773
Best rank ever
#2,534
2002
Peak year
2002
39 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
448
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Pratham

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

PraneelPraisePranayGauthamPrayanPrajwalHaithamHaythamShubhamPratyushPragyanPrateekPraveenPratikGreshamWyndhamLathamDurhamJothamPrashantPranithBinghamMarkhamPransh

Sibling names for Pratham

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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