Prince
The boy's name Prince has been in the national records since 1880, with 24,151 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 447th. About 20,000 Princes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Prince boys named Prince
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 24,151
- Estimated living today
- 20,000
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 297th
- Rank in 2025
- 447th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 550 / 23,601
How old the living Princes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 24,151 babies given the name since 1880, about 20,000 are alive — 84 in every hundred. Roughly 14,000 of them are children and 1,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin English
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Princes
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921–2021)consort of Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2021
- Prince (1958–2016)American musician
- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (born 1984)younger son of Charles III of the United Kingdom and Diana, Princess of Wales
- Prince George of Wales (born 2013)British prince; eldest child of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales
- Prince Henry the Navigator (1394–1460)Portuguese prince and governor
- Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819–1861)Consort of Queen Victoria from 1840 to 1861
- Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1964)British prince (born 1964); youngest child of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Prince Louis of Wales (born 2018)youngest child of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales
People named Prince with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Prince is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Prince is most concentrated in Nevada (3.3×), Georgia (2.7×), Florida (2.6×), South Carolina (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular boys’ names the year Prince peaked:
Prince elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Prince | 1,855 | 439th |
| France boys | Prince | 1,005 | 649th |
| Belgium boys | Prince | 133 | 705th |
| Ireland boys | Prince | 105 | 282nd |
| Scotland boys | Prince | 21 | 568th |
| Poland boys | Prince | 2 birth registrations | 707th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Prince: rank by region
In 2021, Prince was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Prince | 779 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Prince by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 8 | 451st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Prince among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Prince | 45 | 84 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Prince lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 261 men called Prince were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Prince | 15 | 0.036 | 1,602 |
| Zaragoza | Prince | 16 | 0.033 | 1,590 |
| AlmerÃa | Prince | 12 | 0.031 | 1,761 |
| Barcelona | Prince | 88 | 0.030 | 1,691 |
| Lleida | Prince | 6 | 0.025 | 2,057 |
| Navarra | Prince | 6 | 0.018 | 2,551 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Prince against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.