Recorded 1976–2025 · United States
Prem was most popular in 2000, when 26 American babies were given the name — ranking #7,512 that year. In 2025 it ranked #14,309, with 12 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 547 people named Prem.
Prem first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1976, which makes it about 49 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 42 of the 50 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 547 American births named Prem between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 536 are estimated to be alive today.
12 American babies were named Prem in 2025, ranking #14,309 that year.
Prem is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 11 births a year across 2021–2025 against 16 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Prem is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 547 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 536 Americans named Prem are alive today — 98% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 20 years old, and half are between 11 and 27.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org