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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Prayer

Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha

2025 rank

#9,943

down −1,621 places

2025 births

10

down −3 births

All-time births

106

9% of them in 2025

More common than

63%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2019
13 births
Best rank
#8,322
in 2024
First recorded
2000
#12,814 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2016
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
14 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 201913#8,501Peak
  2. 202413#8,322
  3. 202510#9,943
  4. 20229#11,024
  5. 20218#11,941

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #8,322 in 2024 · peak births 13 in 2019

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 16% boys■ 84% girls

20 boys · 106 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Prayer has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.