first name
PRINCE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 16,301 people named Prince, 71.8% reported their origin as Black, 9.8% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.5% as Asian or Pacific Islander. 98.3% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Prince peaked in 2019, when 1,164 babies got the name.
At least 24,151 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Prince by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #718. The largest share of babies named Prince, 49%, were born in 2013 or later.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Prince is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Prince has been most common in Nevada (3.4×), Georgia (2.7×), and Florida (2.6×), and least common in Kansas (0.25×).
19,350 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Prince
Spelled almost the same
2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Prince, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Prince ranks #724 of 156,621, with 46,551 people. See Prince as a last name
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