Meaning not yet researched.
Prophet: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,443 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,443 in 2019; #5,000 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Prophet in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,000 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #4,443.
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Prophet: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #4,443 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 23 (2019).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Prophet, making it the 5,000th most common boys’ name of the year, down 331 places from #4,669 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 22 boys named Prophet in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,443, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 23. For comparison, it was #11,750 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Prophet in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 331 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 123 babies named Prophet.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 187 US boys were named Prophet; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 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 | — | — | 20 | #5,000 |
| 2024 | — | — | 22 | #4,669 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #5,018 |
| 2022 | — | — | 22 | #4,660 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,284 |
| 2020 | — | — | 21 | #4,667 |
| 2019 | — | — | 23 | #4,443 |
| 2018 | — | — | 20 | #4,881 |
| 2017 | — | — | 10 | #7,994 |
| 2016 | — | — | 11 | #7,488 |
| 2015 | — | — | 6 | #11,750 |
| 2014 | — | — | 7 | #10,457 |
| 2013 | — | — | 6 | #11,810 |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #13,731 |
| 2011 | — | — | 5 | #13,827 |
| 2010 | — | — | 6 | #11,832 |
| 2009 | — | — | 5 | #13,980 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,841 |
| 2007 | — | — | 10 | #8,025 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #11,699 |
| 2005 | — | — | 16 | #5,221 |
| 2004 | — | — | 12 | #6,421 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,686 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,413 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,223 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #8,009 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #8,490 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #10,879 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,660 |
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).