# Prince (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/prince/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname transferred from the nickname for someone who acted like a prince, or played the part in a pageant, or served in the household of a prince.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | nickname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 47,168 |
| US rank (2010) | 743 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 6,546 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.7% (44,640 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Prince in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 66% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 26% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 2.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Prince in the United States and Belarus.

## People named Prince

- Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player (born 1980)
- Harold Prince, American theatre producer and director (1928–2019)
- Erik Prince, American businessman, former US Navy SEAL officer and the founder of the private military 
- Robert Prince, American video game composer (1945–2026)
- Taurean Prince, American basketball player (born 1994)
- Richard Prince, American painter and photographer (born 1949)
- Faith Prince, American actress
- Brooklynn Prince, American child actress
- Bevin Prince, American actress
- Helen Dodson Prince, American astronomer
- Conner Prince, American sport shooter
- William Prince, American actor (1913–1996)

and 10 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Prins, Prinz, Pringle, Principe, Prange, Primus, Primeaux, Purington.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.