Prairie

English nature name
"prairie"

Prairie Origin and Meaning

The name Prairie is a girl's name meaning "prairie".

Unspecific place name with a wonderfully wide-open, spacious, western feel; used for a character in Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland.

Prairie is derived from the Old French word praierie, which ultimately came from the Latin pratum, meaning "meadow".

Prairie Popularity

Prairie in Pop Culture

  • Prairie Dawn
    Muppet on "Sesame Street"
  • Prairie Johnson
    main character in the TV show "The OA"
  • Prairie Wheeler
    a cool Valley Girl in Pynchon's "Vineland" (1990)
  • Prairie Flower
    character played by Native American actress Mona Darkfeather in The Vanishing Tribe (1914)
  • Pure Prairie League
    band
  • Prairie
    term for miles of fertile rolling grassland
  • Prairie Moon Palmer Webber
    daughter of actors Teresa Palmer & Mark Webber