Pranav
Pranav was given to 56 boys in 2025, #2,440 among boys’ names; 4,225 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,170 Americans named Pranav and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pranav by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pranav?
#2,440 among boys’ names, 2025
Pranav fell from #1,331 in 2015 to #2,440 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 69.4 to 32.8 per million.
236 babies in 2004, the peak
Pranav peaked in 2004, when 236 boys were given it, #771 among boys’ names. The 56 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,440 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,280 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,212 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,291 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,052 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 79 | #1,887 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 80 | #1,884 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 98 | #1,654 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 139 | #1,304 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 139 | #1,309 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 133 | #1,331 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 148 | #1,234 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 150 | #1,200 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 161 | #1,142 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 172 | #1,086 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 206 | #963 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 228 | #908 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 216 | #942 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 228 | #885 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 216 | #902 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 217 | #848 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 236 | #771 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 226 | #773 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 181 | #896 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 160 | #964 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 102 | #1,276 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 99 | #1,255 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 72 | #1,522 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 57 | #1,718 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 31 | #2,516 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,067 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,428 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,328 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,045 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,164 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,967 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,478 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,530 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,462 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,342 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,600 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Pranav a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pranav has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pranav: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pranav, and how old are they?
4,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,225 Americans ever recorded as Pranav. The median Pranav alive today is 18 years old; half are between 12 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 5,614 people named Pranav (4 women and girls, 5,610 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,806 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 152 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,740 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,280 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Pranav born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,625 | 0.8× |
| California | 7 | #2,158 | 1.5× |
Where Pranav is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Pranav is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1977 it was given 3.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Pranav with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pranav
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Pranav and names like it
- Compare Pranav and TalenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sPranav peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pranav since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Pranav.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Pranav alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.