Pryor — #5441 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Pryor

The Social Security Administration has registered 467 babies named Pryor between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Pryor currently holds the #5441 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 44 babies received it in a single year. Pryor is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 56 additional births since 2016.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pryor performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 168 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Pryor shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Pryor in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pryor 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 467 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.