Name: Prosper
Gender: Male
Usage: Prosper, of latin origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Prosper are in general originating from France, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Prosper is: Prosperous, Fortune.
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Numerology of the first name Prosper: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 8. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: ambitious, successful, realistic, powerful, authoritative, courageous, leading.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Visionary
Ruling planet: Saturn
Colors: Black, Purple
Gemstones: Ruby, Amethyst
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The name Prosper is ranked on the 9,498th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 27100 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Prosper has seven characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
We do not have enough data to display the number of people who were given the name Prosper for each year.
The name day of Prosper is 25 June.
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History and Origin
Prosper is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name:
- Prosper of Aquitaine (390-455), also known as Prosper Tiro, Christian writer and disciple of St Augustine
- Prosper of Catenanuova, martyr, patron saint of Catenanuova
- Prosper of Reggio (died 466), bishop of Reggio Emilia, 5th century
- Prosper or Prospero Alpini (1553–1617), Venetian physician and botanist
- Prosper Arsenault (1894–1987), Canadian educator and politician
- Prosper Avril (born 1937), President of Haiti from 1988 to 1990
- Prosper Boulanger (1918–2002), Canadian politician and businessman
- Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674–1762), French poet and tragedian
- Prosper Dérivis (1808–1880), French operatic bass
- Prosper Garnot (1794–1838), French surgeon and naturalist
- Prosper Giquel (1835–1886), French naval officer and mercenary in China
- Prosper Guéranger (1805–1875), French Benedictine priest, abbot and founder of the French Benedictine Congregation
- Prosper Henry (1849–1903), French optician and astronomer
- Prosper Higiro (born 1961), Rwandan politician
- Prosper L'Orange (1876–1939), German engineer and inventor
- Prosper de Mestre (1789–1844), businessman in Sydney, Australia
- Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870), French writer
- Prosper Montagné (1865–1948), French chef and author
- Prosper Poullet (1868–1937), Belgian politician
- Prosper Sainton (1813–1890), French violinist and conductor
- Prosper Utseya (born 1985), Zimbabwean cricketer
- Prosper Weil (born 1926), French lawyer
- "Prosper", codename of Francis Suttill, Special Operations Executive agent in World War II Occupied France
Surname:
- Peter Prosper (born 1969), Trinidadian footballer
- Pierre-Richard Prosper (born 1963), American lawyer, prosecutor and second United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (2001–2005)
Fictional characters:
- Prosper, fictional orphaned protagonist of the children's novel The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
French and English: 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 Orléans 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).
Cognate: Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese: Prospero.
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