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Prairie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,453 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,453 in 1977; #4,330 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Prairie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,330 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #3,453.
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Prairie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,453 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 34 (2024).
In 2025, 33 US girls were named Prairie, making it the 4,330th most common girls’ name of the year, down 57 places from #4,273 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 34 girls named Prairie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,453, reached in 1977. The most girls given the name in a single year was 34, in 2024. For comparison, it was #15,962 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Prairie in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 501 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 171 babies named Prairie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 254 US girls were named Prairie; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,705 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,330 | — | — |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,273 | — | — |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,693 | — | — |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,652 | — | — |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,485 | — | — |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,807 | — | — |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,130 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,740 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,487 | — | — |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,155 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,962 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,005 | — | — |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,470 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,182 | — | — |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,016 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,619 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,608 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,737 | — | — |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,401 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,110 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,948 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,280 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,813 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,983 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,764 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,232 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,256 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,915 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,354 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,872 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,724 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,005 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,644 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,807 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,705 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,771 | — | — |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,453 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,483 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,160 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,389 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).