Prince
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a medieval nickname for someone who behaved in a princely way; or an anglicization of the invented Jewish name Prinz
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɹɪns/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Prince is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 66th most common surname.
- GHGhana≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.9K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 495 (measured from records)
- 1 in 593 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from a medieval nickname for someone who behaved in a princely way; or an anglicization of the invented Jewish name Prinz
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Prince 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #840 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Prince | 53 |
| NG Nigeria | #427 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Prince | 156 |
| US United States | #592 | 47,168 | 1 in 7.1K | 47K | Prince | 495 |
| GH Ghana | #66 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Prince | 121 |
| GB United Kingdom | #505 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 29 | Prince | 241 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #233 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Prince | 78 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1,265 | 1 in 593 | 1.3K | — | 10 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Prince is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, French surname from “prince”; a nickname for someone with princely bearing or a stage role.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In English, from Fr prince ‘prince’, a nickname; first attested Robert Prince 1177 P (Cu)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Originally a nickname from the royal title, Old French prince (Latin princeps). PRYDERI PSYCHE 198
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, altération de Leprince, de le prince; surnom ironique
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- William Princeb. 1913USAmerican actor (1913–1996)
- Harold Princeb. 1928USAmerican theatre producer and director (1928–2019)
- Robert Princeb. 1945USAmerican video game composer (1945–2026)
- Richard Princeb. 1949USAmerican painter and photographer (born 1949)
- Faith Princeb. 1957USAmerican actress
- Betsy DeVosb. 1958USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician and philanthropist (born 1958)
- Jonathan Princeb. 1958USAmerican actor
- Erik Princeb. 1969USAmerican businessman, former US Navy SEAL officer and the founder of the private military company Blackwater
- Tayshaun Princeb. 1980USAmerican basketball player (born 1980)
- Brooklynn Princeb. 2010USAmerican child actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 110 sources across 58 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16K | #1,816 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 703 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 271 | #1,816 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Prince mean, and where does it come from?
- from a medieval nickname for someone who behaved in a princely way; or an anglicization of the invented Jewish name Prinz Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Prince have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 126 thousand people named Prince in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prince.
- Where is Prince most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Prince is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 593 people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Prince?
- A machine transcription gives /pɹɪns/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Prince?
- In the United States, the national register counted 47,168 people named Prince in 2010, about 1 in 7.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Prince compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Prince is the 840th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/princeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Prince” — the 840th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.