Entry № 774 · 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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.