Princess
The girl's name Princess has been in the national records since 1895, with 15,982 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,120th. About 15,000 Princesses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 15,982
- Estimated living today
- 15,000
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 713th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,120th
- First recorded
- 1895
- Girls / boys
- 15,975 / 7
How old the living Princesses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 15,982 babies given the name since 1895, about 15,000 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 5,300 of them are children and 670 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 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 Princesss
- Princess Charlotte of Wales (born 2015)daughter of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales
- Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930–2002)British princess
- Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (born 1982)youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden
- Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland (born 2012)daughter of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland
- Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885–1969)Member of the House of Battenberg
- Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (1921–2013)queen consort of Iran from 1941 to 1948
- Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1843–1878)Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 1877 to 1878
- Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway (born 2004)Norwegian princess
People named Princess with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Princess is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Princess is most concentrated in Georgia (2.7×), Florida (2.6×), South Carolina (2.2×), North Carolina (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular girls’ names the year Princess peaked:
Princess elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Princess | 1,622 | 324th |
| France girls | Princess | 155 | 3,273rd |
| Ireland girls | Princess | 131 | 238th |
| Scotland girls | Princess | 38 | 571st |
| Belgium girls | Princess | 12 | 1,092nd |
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.
Princess: rank by region
In 2011, Princess was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Princess | 860 | 5 |
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.
Princess by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 4 | 551st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Princess 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 girls | Princess | 28 | 52 |
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.
Related names
Princess 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.