Prosper
Only 36 men in Poland carry it, and no boy has been given it this century. From Latin, where it meant fortunate or successful.
Prosper Pronunciation
Prosper is pronounced PROS-per (/ˈprɔspɛr/).
What Prosper means
Where Prosper comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Prosper comes straight from Latin. The adjective prosperus meant fortunate and successful, and the name keeps that sense unchanged. The meaning hides nothing.
It belonged early to Prosper of Aquitaine, a fifth-century Christian writer and defender of Augustine. Centuries later the name settled most firmly in France. Prosper Mérimée, the nineteenth-century French author, carried it into literature with his novella Carmen, the story Bizet turned into an opera.
No diminutive softens it, and there is no feminine form. On a Polish class register it would stand out at once, short and Latin beside the Piotrs and Kacpers. Its Polish meaning still reads plainly on the surface: pomyślny, szczęśliwy. A child named Prosper carries a word for good fortune.
When Prosper celebrates name day
Prosper appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 25 June.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Prosper
1 in 592950 men in Poland is named Prosper. 36 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6640 among male names.
Prosper as a middle name
Prosper is a first name for 36 men in Poland and a middle name for another 34, a 51/49 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1424th, between Petrov (34) and Rajnhold (34).
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#1422 Osama34
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#1423 Petrov34
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#1424 Prosper34
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#1425 Rajnhold34
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#1426 Romain34