Princess

given name · English · Latin script

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

Princess is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. In Libya it is the 94th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter of a monarch.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 2.1K◐
  • EGEgypt1 in 2.3K
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 2.8K

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

≈15K ●

across 7 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
346 ●

176K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.3K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

PrincessLatin · English●173K records
প্রিন্সেসBengali · Bangla●11 records

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●

A female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter of a monarch.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Princess is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#25979,39445K rec.—81KPrincess158
NG Nigeria#40318,46919K rec.——Princess102
EG Egypt#32416,7684.7K rec.——Princess33
US United States—14,25466K rec.1 in 23K14KPrincess346
ZA South Africa#26112,11912K rec.—2.7KPrincess60
GB United Kingdom—3,9963.6K rec.—3Princess105
SY Syria—3,4914K rec.——Princess7
SA Saudi Arabia#6451,943675 rec.——Princess50
CA Canada—1,8241.3K rec.—3Princess87
MY Malaysia—1,8121.8K rec.——Princess40
AU Australia—1,6781.6K rec.—1Princess94
AE United Arab Emirates#3801,015729 rec.——Princess51

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

Languages●

  • English173K55%
  • Spanish41K13%
  • Arabic27K9%
  • Swahili11K3%
  • Indonesian8.4K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English172,66255%
Spanish40,67513%
Arabic26,8859%
Swahili10,5363%
Indonesian8,3533%

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◐

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

  • Swahili given name14K records spelled Princess3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, Nigeria, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Priñcess

  • Indonesian given name10.0K records spelled Princess9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written 'Princess, Prinçess, Prińçĕŝŝ, Príncēss, Prínçess

  • Thai given name4.0K records spelled Princess15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Thailand, United States, Nigeria

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Prïñçëss, พรินเซส, Prîncess, Prìñçéss, พริ้นเซ้ส

  • Russian given name801 records spelled Princess21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Nigeria, Philippines

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Принцесса, Принцесс, Printsessa, Princessa, Princesś

  • Turkish given name719 records spelled Princess23 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Prînçëss, Prînçêşş, Princëss, Priñceṩs, Pŕiñçęsş

54 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.

Over time●

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Princess in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1895–2025
Yearrecords
18956
18966
18985
19008
19026
19047
19055
190610
190810
19097
191010
191111
19127
19137
191414
191525
191615
191722
191814
191920
192023
192124
192221
192318
192423
192523
192613
192720
192813
192912
193013
193115
193219
193315
193414
193513
193616
193721
193813
193917
194020
194125
194219
194324
194423
194525
194628
194730
194844
194933
195033
195138
195234
195342
195438
195552
195651
195746
195864
195990
196082
196195
196292
1963108
196499
196595
196689
196787
196865
196953
197070
197173
197258
197376
197480
197573
197670
197789
1978107
1979149
1980175
1981187
1982220
1983252
1984262
1985267
1986313
1987238
1988280
1989301
1990272
1991251
1992228
1993253
1994210
1995216
1996212
1997239
1998270
1999261
2000279
2001263
2002269
2003383
2004353
2005371
2006400
2007347
2008291
2009304
2010297
2011309
2012249
2013259
2014259
2015274
2016377
2017383
2018373
2019365
2020343
2021303
2022278
2023288
2024212
2025209

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 126 years between 1895–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1960198020002020Princess Kasune, b. 1975Princess Brun Njua, b. 1986Princess Shyngle, b. 1990Princess Vitarah, b. 1997Princess Ibini-Isei, b. 2000Princess Marfo, b. 2003Princess Ademiluyi, b. 2006

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 64 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Princess
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PH PhilippinesTop 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking202281K#60
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202014K#1,954
ZA South AfricaStats SA — Recorded Live Births (P0305): top-10 baby forenames & surnames20242.7K#2
PH PhilippinesPSA — Most Common Baby Names (2017–present)2023558#11
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—269#4,230
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025230#369
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—216#4,540
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025209—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—150#4,212
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—82#6,270
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202080—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—73#20,270

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 328 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Princess?
We estimate roughly 15 thousand people bear Princess (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Princess have the most bearers?
Princess is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled princess.
How common is Princess compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Princess is the 259th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
Is Princess a male or female name?
Princess is a female 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 Princess mean?
Recorded meaning: A female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter of a monarch.
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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, “Princess” — the 259th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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