Prosper
Prosper reached its high-water mark in 2024 at number 2,674, and has been recorded 754 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,450th. About 550 Prospers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 5.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Prosper boys named Prosper
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 754
- Estimated living today
- 550
- Median age today
- 5
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 2,674th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,450th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 76 / 678
How old the living Prospers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 754 babies given the name since 1881, about 550 are alive — 72 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2020 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Prospers
- Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870)French writer, archaeologist and historian
- Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674–1762)French poet
- Prosper of Aquitaine (390–463)5th-century Roman Christian writer
- Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707–1777)French writer
- Prosper Grech (1925–2019)Maltese Cardinal
- Prosper Guéranger (1805–1875)French Benedictine abbot
- Barthélemy-Prosper Enfantin (1796–1864)one of the founders of Saint-Simonianism
- Prosper Bruggeman (1870–1939)Belgian rower
People named Prosper with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Prosper is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Prosper is most concentrated in Texas (10.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Prosper peaked:
Prosper elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Prosper | 6,870 | 96th |
| England and Wales boys | Prosper | 82 | 2,734th |
| France girls | Prosper | 65 | 1,367th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Prosper among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Prosper | — | 11 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Prosper against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.