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Prem: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,257 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,257 in 1999; #7,091 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Prem in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,091 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #3,257.
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Prem: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,257 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 26 (2000).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Prem, making it the 7,091st most common boys’ name of the year, down 689 places from #6,402 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 14 boys named Prem in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,257, reached in 1999. The most boys given the name in a single year was 26, in 2000. For comparison, it was #5,461 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Prem in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 547 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 184 babies named Prem.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 121 US boys were named Prem; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys 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 | — | — | 12 | #7,091 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,402 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,759 |
| 2022 | — | — | 15 | #6,075 |
| 2021 | — | — | 6 | #11,793 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #10,332 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,737 |
| 2018 | — | — | 20 | #4,878 |
| 2017 | — | — | 9 | #8,655 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,631 |
| 2015 | — | — | 17 | #5,461 |
| 2014 | — | — | 14 | #6,226 |
| 2013 | — | — | 15 | #5,851 |
| 2012 | — | — | 20 | #4,815 |
| 2011 | — | — | 15 | #5,879 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,461 |
| 2009 | — | — | 19 | #5,057 |
| 2008 | — | — | 15 | #5,991 |
| 2007 | — | — | 17 | #5,378 |
| 2006 | — | — | 20 | #4,642 |
| 2005 | — | — | 20 | #4,425 |
| 2004 | — | — | 19 | #4,554 |
| 2003 | — | — | 17 | #4,759 |
| 2002 | — | — | 18 | #4,452 |
| 2001 | — | — | 13 | #5,596 |
| 2000 | — | — | 26 | #3,273 |
| 1999 | — | — | 25 | #3,257 |
| 1998 | — | — | 17 | #4,150 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,191 |
| 1996 | — | — | 14 | #4,553 |
| 1995 | — | — | 13 | #4,722 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,550 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #7,080 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #8,205 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,538 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,595 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,435 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,465 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #7,020 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,078 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,478 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,257 |
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).