Prashant
From a root meaning calm and peaceful. Only about 70 men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been given it in recent years, so most Poles will never meet one.
Prashant Pronunciation
What Prashant means
Where Prashant comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Prashant comes from Sanskrit, from the word praśānta, built from the prefix pra and a root meaning to grow calm. The dictionary sense runs close to the meaning a Polish naming site records: calm, peaceful, tranquil. In Polish the two words that fit are spokojny and pogodny.
The word describes a settled state, water after the wind drops. In classical texts praśānta marks a mind that has stopped churning. That older, philosophical shading sits under the modern given name, which spread across India as a common boy's name during the twentieth century.
On a Polish class register the name looks foreign, and a teacher reading it aloud slows down. It has no Polish diminutive and no day of its own in the calendar. Say it plainly. The short meaning stays attached: spokojny, calm.
How many people are named Prashant
1 in 304946 men in Poland is named Prashant. 70 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4312 among male names.
Prashant as a middle name
Prashant is a first name for 70 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1541st, between Polina (22) and Radomiła (22).
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#1539 Nicolette22
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#1540 Polina22
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#1541 Prashant22
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#1542 Radomiła22
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#1543 Ruvarashe22