Prosperity
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- pross-PEH-rih-tee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Prosperity is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “good fortune, success”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Prosperity mean?
English: English word used as a virtue name
“good fortune, success”
A virtue name in the tradition of Hope, Grace and Patience.
Is Prosperity a girl's or a boy's name?
Prosperity is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Prosperity in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,858th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Prosperity, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
2025 had more girls named Prosperity than any year since 2015.
Half of all the girls named Prosperity in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Prosperity in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
Names like Prosperity
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Serenity, Everly, Palmer, Poppy, Marigold, Presley, Klarity, Navy, Felicity, Legacy, Lily, Parker
More English names
Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel, Carter
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, “Prosperity: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/prosperity, updated 20 October 2026.