girls:
49 births since 2016
#5667 (1st percentile)
boys:
450 births since 1881
#4136 (10th percentile)
overall:
499 births since 1881
#7240 (6th percentile)
The name Pryor is the #7,240 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 499 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 6.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,136 (9.8% percentile) for all time with 450 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,667 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 49 births since 2016.
Pryor first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 2016 for girls). Birth data for Pryor is available in 44 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (44 years for boys and 7 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Pryor has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Pryor reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #878) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 46 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Pryor ranks #899 for boys (1.3% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 20.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Pryor reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #932) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pryor".
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