Prachi — girls' name
423 babies named Prachi in U.S. Social Security records since 1982, with the highest year being 2007. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
45% of everyone ever named Prachi was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Prachi in 2007 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Prachi
The Social Security Administration has registered 423 babies named Prachi between 1982 and 2020, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Prachi currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 27 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Prachi performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 190 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Prachi shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 22 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Prachi in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Prachi in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 423 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Prachi at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Prachi popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1982
- Peak year (2007)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 39 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
423 total births across 39 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2007 with 27 births in a single year.
Prachi by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 190 births that decade — 45% of Prachi's all-time total
Prachi decade highlights
- Peak decade 190 births
- Runner-up 111 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Prachi's strongest decade
190 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 45% of all-time use.
Prachi by state
Where Prachi concentrates geographically — total births since 1982
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 22 | 5.2% |
| #2 | New Jersey | | 11 | 2.6% |
| #3 | Texas | | 5 | 1.2% |
22 of 423 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 5.2% of nationwide
- New Jersey 2.6% of nationwide
- Texas 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 5.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1982–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.