Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pritam through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 798 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 Pritam
- PritamIndian music director and composerborn 1971
- Pritam KotalIndian association football playerborn 1993
- Pritam Singhsecretary-general of the Workers' Party (Singapore) since 2018born 1976
- Pritam Singh SafirPunjabi poet1916–1999
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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