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Prem

#7,087 in 2025Boys' name

Love, affection

Prem has been given to 547 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #7,087 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Prem, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Prem: meaning, origin, and history

Love, affection

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Prem means

Prem means “love, affection”, associated with premán.

Origin, language, and formation

Prem is used in English.

Prem comes through Sanskrit प्रे॒मन्.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 547 boys were recorded with the name Prem between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2000; its best national rank was #3,253 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,326 in 2020 to #7,087 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,457 in 2015 to #7,087 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 Prem?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,087
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Prem 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Prem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Prems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Prem was born before 2006 — so the typical Prem is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
547
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Choose a decade

2000s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (184).

Is Prem 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
−690
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,239
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,630
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.2%
Peak was 2000 (26)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,253
1999

Spellings of Prem

Prem is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 46.2% against Prem's 0.07%.

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 Prem is used

Across 1910–2025, Prem was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,130,647 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

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

Prem around the world

Where Prem 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
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2011–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Prem by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,087
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,239
Best rank ever
#3,253
1999
Peak year
2000
26 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
547
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Prem

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

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Sibling names for Prem

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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