Prayer
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- PRAIR
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Prayer is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “prayer”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Prayer mean?
English: English word, from Old French preiere
“prayer”
Is Prayer a girl's or a boy's name?
Prayer is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls and 6 boys in the US.
How popular is Prayer in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #9,454among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Prayer, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000. 6 boys were also named Prayer in 2025 (10,690th for boys).
Half of all the girls named Prayer in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Prayer in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
Names like Prayer
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Prayer: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/prayer, updated 20 October 2026.