Prosper is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Prosper in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Prosper in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Prosper by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Prosper ranks at #3,854. That means there are 3,853 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Prosper.
Is the name Prosper a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1881 – at that time, it landed at position 751 with 5 newborn boys receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Prosper is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Prosper, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Prosper was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Prosper, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 48 parents welcomed a new Prosper to earth that year. That makes Prosper ranking on position 2,409 among newborn boys in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Prosper who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
Meeting a man or boy named Prosper is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Prosper can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Prosper. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Prosper living in one state or another. (If your name is Prosper and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Prosper is in Texas, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00005% of all male residents are called Prosper – that’s just one in 2,030,947! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 6 men going by that name. So, if your name is Prosper, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But P is by no means the rarest initial. While X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D.
With seven letters, the name Prosper has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with a P, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a P, Paul is currently the most common.
If your name is Prosper and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Prosper, you can simply say:
Pig
Rocket
Orange
Sun
Pig
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Prosper
Prosper
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
R
O
S
P
E
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
R
O
S
P
E
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Prosper sounds like this:
