Prince

Prince is the 724th most common surname in the United States, shared by 46,551 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,421.

By the numbers

People: 46,551
Rank: 724th
How common: 1 in 6,421
Per 100,000: 15.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Prince described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 62.7%
Black, not Hispanic 26.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Prince

Prince (1958–2016)American musician
Tayshaun Prince (born 1980)American basketball player
Louis Le Prince (born 1841)French artist and cinematographer, pioneer of cinema
Harold Prince (1928–2019)American theatre producer and director
Erik Prince (born 1969)American businessman, former US Navy SEAL officer and the founder of the private military company Blackwater
Nichelle Prince (born 1995)Canadian soccer player
Robert Prince (1945–2026)American video game composer
Derek Prince (1915–2003)British missionary

People named Prince with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Prince

Also a first name

Prince has been given to 24,151 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2019. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.