Prosper as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Prosper

What is the meaning of the name Prosper ?

The baby name Prosper is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced PROS-pər.

Prosper is Latin in Origin.

Prosper is the English and French form of Latin Prosperus, a personal name taken from the adjective prosperus, with the masculine nominative ending -us. In classical and late Latin the word signified favorable, fortunate, or successful, especially of conditions that advanced well; as a name its earliest securely attested form is Prosperus.

Christian calendars preserved the name chiefly through Saint Prosper of Aquitaine, the fifth-century theologian and defender of Augustine against semi-Pelagian teaching. English use remained limited but visible among some Puritans, helped by its identity with the English verb prosper. In France the calendar form Prosper remained more established than in English, while Italian Prospero is best known from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The French writer Prosper Mérimée provides a nineteenth-century literary bearer.