Meaning not yet researched.
Pryor: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #977 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #977 in 1881; #5,554 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Pryor in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,554 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #977.
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Pryor: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #977 in 1881 · most boys in one year: 44 (2019).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Pryor, making it the 5,554th most common boys’ name of the year, up 45 places from #5,599 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 17 boys named Pryor in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #977, reached in 1881. The most boys given the name in a single year was 44, in 2019. For comparison, it was #8,557 in 2015 and #3,600 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Pryor in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #10,941, reached in 2021. The most girls given the name in a single year was 9, in 2022. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pryor in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 540 US babies have been given the name, 10% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 191 babies named Pryor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 230 US boys were named Pryor; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 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 | — | — | 17 | #5,554 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,133 | 17 | #5,599 |
| 2023 | — | — | 17 | #5,610 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,028 | 21 | #4,813 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,941 | 24 | #4,335 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,888 | 23 | #4,386 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,472 | 44 | #2,841 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,225 | 37 | #3,153 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,844 | 16 | #5,718 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,240 | 14 | #6,272 |
| 2015 | — | — | 9 | #8,557 |
| 2014 | — | — | 14 | #6,227 |
| 2013 | — | — | 9 | #8,603 |
| 2012 | — | — | 6 | #11,910 |
| 2011 | — | — | 12 | #6,904 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #10,478 |
| 2009 | — | — | 10 | #8,149 |
| 2008 | — | — | 10 | #8,147 |
| 2007 | — | — | 5 | #13,897 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #10,383 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #11,124 |
| 2004 | — | — | 6 | #10,988 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #10,531 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,665 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,415 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,600 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,247 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,239 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #3,065 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,861 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #4,045 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,096 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #3,088 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,661 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,776 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,818 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,438 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,172 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,320 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,307 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,798 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,738 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,637 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,449 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,552 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #977 |
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).