Given name
Pragyan
“intelligence, wisdom”
Pragyan is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “intelligence, wisdom.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Sanskrit प्रज्ञान (“intelligence, wisdom”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pragyan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 74
- 74 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,485 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,485 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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