Pritam
Pritam Chakraborty, also popularly known mononymously as Pritam, is a National Film Award winning Indian composer. Graduating from FTII in Sound Engineering, he worked as an ad jingle composer, sound designer & theme music composer for TV serials, and later debuted as a co-composer alongside Jeet Gannguli in the 2001 Hindi film Tere Liye.
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Punjabi
- Bengali
Meaning & Origin of Pritam
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Pritam Chakraborty, also popularly known mononymously as Pritam, is a National Film Award winning Indian composer. Graduating from FTII in Sound Engineering, he worked as an ad jingle composer, sound designer & theme music composer for TV serials, and later debuted as a co-composer alongside Jeet Gannguli in the 2001 Hindi film Tere Liye.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Punjabi
- Bengali
The Story of Pritam
Pritam first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 2005, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2010: 6 births, good for #10,765 nationwide. About 55% of every Pritam on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Pritam last appeared in the published SSA data in 2010, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 11 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2000s to the 2020s.
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Names that sound like Pritam
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- Protem
- Praten
- Prism
- Prizm
- Prating
- Prisme
- Protein
- Britain
- Proton
- Prety
- Proto
- Preteen
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About the name Pritam
Pritam is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2005 and has accumulated 11 births in the dataset. Pritam's peak popularity came in 2010 when it ranked #10,765. Use the chart and map above to compare Pritam's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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