In 2025, 25 US boys were named Prayan, making it the 4,220th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,171 places from #5,391 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 18 boys named Prayan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,778, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 29. For comparison, it was #10,352 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Prayan in 14 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2012 with 10 babies. In all, 221 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 116 babies named Prayan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 193 US boys were named Prayan; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 68,323 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.