Unisex name · since 2000
Prayer
106 babies named Prayer in U.S. Social Security records since 2000, with the highest year being 2019. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #26,522 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,801 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 106
- born since 2000
- 2020s
- peak decade
106 babies have been named Prayer since 2000, making it today's #9801 unisex name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Prayer has been recorded 106 times among girls since 2000, currently ranked #9801 nationally and more common than 43% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2000 to 2025.
- #26,522 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #9,801 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 106 born since 2000
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Prayer ranks #26,522 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,801 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 106 born since 2000, peaking in the 2020s.
- #26,522 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,801 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 106
- born since 2000
- 2020s
- peak decade
Prayer's 106 recorded births place it above 63.3% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Prayer compares
106 26th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Prayer's all-time total is 72% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Prayer | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 106 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 13 | 21 | 19,840 |
Prayer's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Prayer's SSA record in two at 2019 and the more recent half accounts for 60% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 40%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2004, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2019 peak of 13, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Prayer popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2000–2025
- Peak year (2019)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 26 years of records
Prayer popularity over time - boys
20 total births recorded since 2021 (Prayer as boys' name)
Prayer by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (51 births, 48% of the file).
2020s was Prayer's strongest decade.
51 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 48% of all-time use.
Prayer births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
23 births
- 2010s
2010s
32 births
- 2020s
2020s
51 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 51 births (48% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2000–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Prayer draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.