boys:
178 births since 2012
#4408 (4th percentile)
overall:
178 births since 2012
#7561 (2nd percentile)
The name Prayan is the #7,561 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 178 recorded births since 2012. This represents the 2.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,408 (3.8% percentile) for all time with 178 births since 2012.
Prayan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2012 (first recorded for boys in 2012).
For boys, Prayan reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #893) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Prayan ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 65.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Prayan".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Prayan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.4% confident that Prayan is pronounced as PRAY-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PRAH-yuhn, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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