Entry № 8265 · French origin

Prairie Prairie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PRAIR-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Grassland / meadow (modern American nature name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (American)

A name that means "grassland / meadow (modern american nature name)".

Prairie is from the French prairie (meadow, grassland) — from the Latin pratum (meadow). Prairie Sun (born 1989) — modern American figure. Princess Prairie — modern American heritage naming.

Grassland / meadow (modern American nature name) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Prairie
Transliteration
Prairie
Pronunciation
/ ˈprɛr.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Prairie stands.

Prairie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Prairies before her.

Real people

In fiction
Little House on the Prairie
Iconic Laura Ingalls Wilder series.
1932
Prairie Johnson (The OA)
Iconic Netflix The OA character.
2016

Names connected to Prairie.

The number behind Prairie.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Prairie reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.