Priam
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- PRY-um
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #6,442 for boys
Priam is a boys' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).
What does Priam mean?
Greek: Greek Priamos, possibly from an older Anatolian (Luwian) name
Priam was the king of Troy during the Trojan War, father of Hector and Paris in Homer's Iliad.
Is Priam a girl's or a boy's name?
Priam is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Priam in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2023, with 9 boys.
Half of all the boys named Priam in the UK since 1996 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Priam in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #3,003 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,468 |
| 2022 | 8 | #2,678 |
| 2021 | 8 | #2,619 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,025 |
| 2019 | 7 | #2,878 |
| 2018 | 3 | #4,959 |
| 2017 | 5 | #3,608 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #4,955 |
How popular is Priam in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,442among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 130,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 13 boys in the US were named Priam, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 2015.
Half of all the boys named Priam in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Priam in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,771 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,548 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
Names like Priam
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Names related to Priam
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Priam: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/priam, updated 20 October 2026.