Príncipe

loc · Latin script

Príncipe is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • ARArgentina1 in 32K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 33K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 92K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,202 people, 2010

Record sources
267 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Principe in US United States, ES Spain, CH Switzerland and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
recorded in Italian

VARIANTI: Principi, Préncipe; Del Principe. DERIVATI: Principato. J Diffuso nel Sud (ma Principe e Principi, sporadicamente, anche in altre regioni), ha alla base un nome e soprannome Principe, formato da principe con valore augurale, o in relazione a primati e vittorie in feste e gare, o anche al fatto di risiedere e lavorare in casa di principi (analogo quindi a Ré, Marchési, Duca, ecc.).

Cited for this meaning 2

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Príncipe is found

(measured from records)

Príncipe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Príncipe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2,2021 in 151K2.2KPrincipe267
BR Brazil—1,6241 in 130K1.6K—2
AR Argentina—1,4301 in 32K1.4K—1
ES Spain—4651 in 108K465Principe15
UY Uruguay—1041 in 33K104——
CH Switzerland—911 in 92K91Principe13
PR Puerto Rico#623———Principe11

2,202 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Príncipe is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Principe

  • Arabic surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States

    Also written Principe, Principé, Princip, Prinçipé, Prįnçîpė

  • French surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Canada

    Also written Principe, Principé, Prîncïpê, Prinçipé, Prinçipe

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Peru, Italy

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Principe, Принсипе, Принчипе, Принципе, Принсипи

  • Khmer surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru

    Also written Principe, Principé

19 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Príncipe is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, prince

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Príncipe under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname Príncipe?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Príncipe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled principe. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Príncipe most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Príncipe is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 32 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Príncipe?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,202 people named Príncipe in 2010, about 1 in 151 thousand residents.
How common is Príncipe compared with other names?
In Puerto Rico, Príncipe is the 623rd most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Príncipe” — the 623rd most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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