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Prerna

Girls' name

From Sanskrit प्रेरणा; literal meaning unconfirmed

Prerna has been given to 73 babies in the U.S. since 1987. 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 2002, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Prerna, 2012

1 in 610,000

Prerna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Prerna: meaning, origin, and history

From Sanskrit प्रेरणा; literal meaning unconfirmed

Sanskrit

What Prerna means

Prerna is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Prerna is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Prerna comes through Sanskrit प्रेरणा.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 73 girls were recorded with the name Prerna between 1987 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2002; its best national rank was #9,327 in 2002.

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 Prerna?

Prerna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,543 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Prerna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 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 422,543 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Prerna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Prernas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Prerna was born before 2003 — so the typical Prerna is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
67.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
73
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 67.1% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Prerna 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2002 (11)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,327
2002

Spellings of Prerna

Prerna is not the most common spelling — Verna is, with 29.6% against Prerna's 0.03%.

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.

Prerna around the world

Where Prerna 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
    2005–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007

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

Prerna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,327
2002
Peak year
2002
11 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
73
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Prerna

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

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Sibling names for Prerna

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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