Prince

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Prince is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria. In Oman it is the 94th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from a medieval nickname for someone who behaved in a princely way; or an anglicization of the invented Jewish name Prinz.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria1 in 1.4K◐
  • GHGhana1 in 1.5K
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈18K ●

across 5 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
438 ●

733K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 14K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

PrinceLatin · English●207K records
ПринцCyrillic · Russian●2.9K records
프린스Hangul · Korean●0 records
פרינץHebrew · Yiddish●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Принц in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

from a medieval nickname for someone who behaved in a princely way; or an anglicization of the invented Jewish name Prinz

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Prince is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#11551,82365K rec.——Prince146
IN India—29,10317K rec.—540Prince183
US United States—16,030495K rec.1 in 21K47KPrince438
PH Philippines—12,3408.3K rec.——Prince102
ZA South Africa#28111,46416K rec.—1.8KPrince82
GH Ghana#9511,0579.4K rec.——Prince111
GB United Kingdom—5,89634K rec.——Prince191
AU Australia—2,89314K rec.——Prince150
CA Canada—2,73012K rec.—3Prince177
RU Russia—2,5452.8K rec.——Принц87
SA Saudi Arabia#5032,3711.8K rec.——Prince54
AE United Arab Emirates#1911,9362.5K rec.——Prince75

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi287K33%
  • English207K24%
  • Akan195K23%
  • Swahili22K3%
  • Spanish18K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi287,33033%
English207,02624%
Akan195,49223%
Swahili22,2523%
Spanish18,3832%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Prince is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name65K records spelled Prince128 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Brazil, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Prînçë, Prîñçë, Pŕïñçë, Prïñçë, Priñcê

  • a separate given name21K records spelled Prince2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria

    Also written Princé

  • Khmer given name18K records spelled Prince6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nigeria, Malawi, South Africa

    Also written Prînçë, Príncê, Prįnçê, Princë, Pŕinċë

  • a separate name10.0K records spelled Prince3 spellings in the group

    Also written Priskieg

  • Indonesian given name6.5K records spelled Prince38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Philippines, Nigeria

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Prînçë, Prïñçë, Príñcé, Pŕiņćẻ, Pŕiņćé

91 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Prince is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, French surname from “prince”; a nickname for someone with princely bearing or a stage role.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

  • In English, from Fr prince ‘prince’, a nickname; first attested Robert Prince 1177 P (Cu)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • Originally a nickname from the royal title, Old French prince (Latin princeps). PRYDERI PSYCHE 198

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, altération de Leprince, de le prince; surnom ironique

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K1900195020001.2K · 2019

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Prince in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188016
188117
188218
188318
188417
188521
188622
188718
188819
188914
189018
189126
189219
189314
189413
189518
189626
189719
189814
189915
190022
190129
190221
190323
190429
190524
190620
190717
190825
190930
191038
191131
191249
191350
191469
191580
191685
191786
191890
191980
192080
192182
192297
192366
192496
192575
192673
192769
192870
192964
193063
193149
193263
193351
193449
193559
193655
193762
193866
193956
194060
194151
194245
194362
194454
194552
194664
194767
194858
194977
195052
195166
195258
195371
195473
195575
195674
195781
195855
195964
196061
196155
196263
196364
196470
196548
196646
196745
196855
196944
197051
197152
197249
197363
197459
197539
197665
197759
197873
197992
1980131
1981146
1982137
1983167
1984206
1985195
1986150
1987122
1988138
1989134
1990126
1991135
1992129
1993118
199495
1995105
199696
1997123
1998172
1999152
2000176
2001164
2002161
2003202
2004228
2005232
2006247
2007273
2008302
2009351
2010501
2011551
2012594
2013634
2014755
2015830
20161,012
2017988
20181,066
20191,164
20201,052
2021978
2022943
2023894
2024806
2025703

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

192019401960198020002020Prince Buster, b. 1938Prince Y. Johnson, b. 1952Prince, b. 1958Prince Yahshua, b. 1970Prince Fielder, b. 1984Prince Tagoe, b. 1986Prince Oniangué, b. 1988Prince-Désir Gouano, b. 1993Prince Jackson, b. 1997Blanket Jackson, b. 2002

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 107 sources across 58 countries.

Official registers attesting Prince
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201047K#743
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202047K#724
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200045K#700
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202016K#1,816
ZA South AfricaStats SA — Recorded Live Births (P0305): top-10 baby forenames & surnames20241.8K#4
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251.3K#58
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024905#787
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—716#2,144
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025703—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—540#8,695
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991419—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—362#3,127

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 686 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Prince?
We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Prince (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Prince have the most bearers?
Prince is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled prince.
How common is Prince compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Prince is the 115th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
Is Prince a male or female name?
Prince is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Prince mean?
Recorded meaning: from a medieval nickname for someone who behaved in a princely way; or an anglicization of the invented Jewish name Prinz
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Prince” — the 115th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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