Pryor
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #12,161 · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to boys 89.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1881 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 484since 1881
Pryor over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #5,399 | 17 | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | — | #5,470 | 17 | |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #4,247 | 24 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #4,275 | 23 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #2,808 | 44 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #3,106 | 37 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #5,526 | 16 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | — | #8,040 | 9 | |
| 2014 | — | #5,997 | 14 | |
| 2013 | — | #8,118 | 9 | |
| 2012 | — | #10,770 | 6 | |
| 2011 | — | #6,578 | 12 | |
| 2010 | — | #9,693 | 7 | |
| 2009 | — | #7,692 | 10 | |
| 2008 | — | #7,698 | 10 | |
| 2007 | — | #12,367 | 5 | |
| 2006 | — | #9,585 | 7 | |
| 2005 | — | #10,151 | 6 | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,010 | 7 | |
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| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
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| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,904 | 9 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
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| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,214 | 8 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,115 | 8 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,096 | 8 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,273 | 7 | |
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| 1908 | — | #1,373 | 5 | |
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| 1881 | — | #866 | 5 | |
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Pryor! It came in at #866, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1881–1912, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Pryor
- 44 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #5,399)
- 1,124 spots since 2020 (#4,275 → #5,399)
- 2,641 spots since 2015 (#8,040 → #5,399)
- Debuted 1881
- Peaked 1881 at #866 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1882, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1881
- Highest: 1 in 20,147 boys born in 1881 were named Pryor (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.7% of all boys named Pryor (168) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #866 (1881) | #866 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 5 | #1,373 (1908) | #1,373 |
| 1910s | 40 | #2,273 (1913) | #3,109 |
| 1920s | 60 | #2,904 (1926) | #3,577 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 20 | #2,871 (1940) | #2,959 |
| 1950s | 11 | #3,329 (1950) | #3,661 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 6 | #5,123 (1977) | #5,123 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 50 | #7,692 (2009) | #9,575 |
| 2010s | 168 | #2,808 (2019) | #6,669 |
| 2020s | 119 | #4,247 (2021) | #4,923 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Pryor in 1881
Top boys' names in 1881
More about 1881
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100,735 boys got a published name in 1881; 1 in 20,147 of them was named Pryor, which outranked 13.1% of the 996 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 43.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 130 names at #866; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.