# Princess (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/princess/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 15,982 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7 / 15,975 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,622, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 309 | 856 |
| 2012 | 249 | 1,015 |
| 2013 | 259 | 973 |
| 2014 | 259 | 1,010 |
| 2015 | 274 | 988 |
| 2016 | 377 | 758 |
| 2017 | 383 | 740 |
| 2018 | 373 | 744 |
| 2019 | 365 | 765 |
| 2020 | 343 | 795 |
| 2021 | 303 | 894 |
| 2022 | 278 | 963 |
| 2023 | 288 | 922 |
| 2024 | 212 | 1,146 |
| 2025 | 209 | 1,122 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 7 | 6,752 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 121 | 386 |
| 2012 | 97 | 465 |
| 2013 | 67 | 608 |
| 2014 | 72 | 579 |
| 2015 | 72 | 585 |
| 2016 | 62 | 676 |
| 2017 | 64 | 648 |
| 2018 | 54 | 729 |
| 2019 | 39 | 920 |
| 2020 | 49 | 749 |
| 2021 | 32 | 1,069 |
| 2022 | 38 | 910 |
| 2023 | 42 | 851 |
| 2024 | 42 | 869 |
| 2025 | 32 | 1,051 |

## People named Princess

- Princess Shyngle, Gambian actress and producer
- Princess Brun Njua, actress and model
- Ciara, American singer, songwriter, and dancer (born 1985)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.