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Prosper

#3,492 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Fortunate, successful

Prosper has been given to 754 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #3,492 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 49 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.

Babies named Prosper, 2025

1 in 100,000

Prosper over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Prosper over time

In 2025, Prosper went to 20% girls and 80% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Prosper: meaning, origin, and history

Fortunate, successful

French

What Prosper means

Prosper means “fortunate, successful”.

Origin, language, and formation

Prosper is used in English. Its origins include French.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 678 boys were recorded with the name Prosper between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 2024; its best national rank was #975 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,381 in 2020 to #3,492 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,512 in 2015 to #3,492 in 2025.

In the United States, 76 girls were recorded with the name Prosper between 2017 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2024; its best national rank was #8,830 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,140 in 2020 to #11,679 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 Prosper?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,492
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Prosper 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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Prosper. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Prospers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Prosper was born before 2015 — so the typical Prosper is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
464
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Choose a decade

2020s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (233).

Is Prosper 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
−791
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+889
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,020
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.3%
Peak was 2024 (49)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#975
1881

Spellings of Prosper

Prosper is the most-used spelling, taking 51.2% of the 1,325 babies given a near-identical spelling.

  • Prosper51.2%678
  • Roper48.8%647

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 Prosper is used

Across 1910–2025, Prosper was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 624,283 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Prosper has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Prosper around the world

Where Prosper 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
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #3,939
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2023
    #2,436
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Prosper by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,492
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 889
Best rank ever
#975
1881
Peak year
2024
49 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
678
Count in 2025
33

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,679
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,461
Best rank ever
#8,830
2024
Peak year
2024
12 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
76
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Prosper

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

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Sibling names for Prosper

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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