Prosper
Prosper is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 33 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,679 among girls’ names and #3,492 among boys’, #6,479 among all names counting both); 754 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Prosper by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Prosper mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Prosper is “a male given name from French.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Prosper?
#3,492 among boys’ names, 2025
Prosper rose from #4,512 in 2015 to #3,492 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 19.3 per million.
61 babies in 2024, the peak
Prosper peaked in 2024, when 61 babies were given it (49 boys, #2,701 among boys’ names). The 41 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 67% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,679 | 33 | #3,492 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,830 | 49 | #2,701 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,146 | 41 | #3,045 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,186 | 46 | #2,818 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,135 | 41 | #3,013 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,140 | 23 | #4,381 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,169 | 27 | #3,967 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,236 | 25 | #4,189 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,477 | 21 | #4,701 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 18 | #5,267 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 22 | #4,512 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 10 | #7,978 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 14 | #6,162 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 7 | #10,480 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 10 | #7,925 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 9 | #8,613 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 9 | #8,820 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 12 | #7,082 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 8 | #9,534 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 5 | #13,510 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 7 | #9,679 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #10,332 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 6 | #10,216 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 8 | #8,002 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 7 | #8,224 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 5 | #4,141 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 5 | #3,667 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 6 | #3,445 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 5 | #3,947 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 6 | #3,585 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 6 | #3,684 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 9 | #2,829 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 6 | #3,905 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 8 | #3,184 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 6 | #4,042 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 9 | #3,085 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 9 | #3,093 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 9 | #3,201 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 13 | #2,416 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 12 | #2,600 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 8 | #3,425 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 6 | #4,061 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 16 | #2,054 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 14 | #2,167 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 14 | #2,123 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 10 | #2,579 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 7 | #2,847 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 5 | #3,161 | |
| 1902 | under 5 | 5 | #1,274 | |
| 1894 | under 5 | 5 | #1,203 | |
| 1884 | under 5 | 5 | #1,088 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 5 | #975 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Prosper a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 754 Americans recorded as Prosper, 10% are girls and 90% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Prosper: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Prosper, and how old are they?
An estimated 544 Americans named Prosper and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 858 people named Prosper (59 women and girls, 799 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 279 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 times 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.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Prosper
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 Prosper and names like it
- Compare Prosper and MillerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sProsper peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Prosper since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Prosper: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Prosper.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Prosper alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.