Given name
Prisma
“one who is cherished”
Prisma is used as a given name. One Hindi interpretation is “one who is cherished.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “one who is cherished.”
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 1984. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Prisma through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 423
- 0 boys · 423 girls
- Most popular year
- 1987
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,690 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −23%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,690 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 27 in 1987. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 499 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.
Prisma’s family of names
Prisma has a related form in Prismah. Prisma has a related form in Prizma. Prisma has a related form in Prizmah.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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