Given name
Prarthana
“one who prays”
Prarthana is used as a given name. One Hindi interpretation is “one who prays.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “one who prays.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hindi.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Prarthana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 77
- 0 boys · 77 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,514 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −78%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,514 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 275 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Prarthana
- Prarthana ThombareIndian tennis playerborn 1994
- Prarthana BehereIndian actressborn 1983
- Prarthana Fardin DighiBangladeshi film actressborn 2000
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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