Prosper

Where Prosper comes from

The dictionaries list Prosper as a given name — a male given name from French — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • French
Along the way
  1. 1674
    Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon born
    French poet
  2. 1803
    Prosper Mérimée born
    French writer, archaeologist and historian
  3. 1881
    Debut at its peak, #866
    #866 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  4. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Prosper Mérimée · French writer, archaeologist and historian, 1803–1870
  • Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon · French poet, 1674–1762
  • Prosper of Aquitaine · 5th-century Roman Christian writer, 390–463
  • Prosper Guéranger · French Benedictine abbot, 1805–1875
  • Prosper Avril · President of Haiti, born 1937

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.