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

• 1475 Nameberry 2024

20 Names Similar to Prairie

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• Valley
• Meadow
• Flower
• Lake
• October
• Field
• Orchid
• Fern
• Sonnet
• Elm
• Season
• Breeze
• Holiday
• Sunshine
• Patience
• Sahara
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• Story
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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)
• "Little House on the Prairie"
• "A Prairie Home Companion"
• Pure Prairie League band
• Prairie term for miles of fertile rolling grassland