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Pranavi vs Pratik

American parents have registered 558 Pratiks since 1880, against 552 Pranavis. But in 2025 it was Pranavi that was commoner, 28 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Pranavi against Pratik, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Pranavi Pratik

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 47 years in which either name was published, Pratik for 25 years and Pranavi for 22 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Pranavi Pratik
Total US births 552558
Most in one year 3227
Babies in 2025 28under 5
Estimated living today 550540
Median age today 1225
Peak year 20071989
Best rank 4,567th girls2,416th boys
Rank in 2025 4,758thunranked
First recorded 20001976
Girls / boys 552 / 00 / 558

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Pratiks alive today are over 25; half the Pranavis are over 12. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Pranavi Pratik
England and Wales 8357

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Pranavi and Pratik.