as a First Name
From the Latin name Prosperus, derived from the adjective prosper ‘fortunate, prosperous’ (originally ‘according to one's wishes’, Latin pro spe). This was the name of various early saints, including a 5th-century theologian and contemporaneous bishops of Orleans and Reggio. It was a favourite among the English Puritans, partly because of its association with the English vocabulary word prosper, but is now rare. In France it is best known as the given name of the writer Prosper Mérimée (1803–70).
| 13,426th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 539
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maryland
- has the most people named Prosper per capita
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