Princess
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter of a monarch
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɹɪnsɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Princess is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Libya it is the 67th most common given name.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.7K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
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)
A female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter of a monarch.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Princess 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #477 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Princess | 103 |
| PH Philippines | #291 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 81K | Princess | 170 |
| EG Egypt | #224 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Princess | 35 |
| ZA South Africa | #299 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | listed | Princess | 63 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Princess | 20 |
| US United States | — | 14,300 | 1 in 23K | 14K | Princess | 384 |
| LY Libya | #67 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Princess | 4 |
| GY Guyana | — | 230 | 1 in 3.3K | 230 | — | 11 |
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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the za-statssa-births 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Princess Kasuneb. 1975ZMZambian politician
- Princess Brun Njuab. 1986CMactress and model
- Princess Shyngleb. 1990GHGambian actress and producer
- Princess Vitarahb. 1997USNigerian-American rapper, singer, and songwriter
- Princess Ibini-Iseib. 2000AUAustralian football player
- Princess Marfob. 2003GHGhanaian association football player (2003-)
- Princess Ademiluyib. 2006GBEnglish footballer
- Princess HallidayNGactor
- Princess OgheneNGNigerian business woman
- Princess FakuZASouth African politician
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 66 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14K | #1,954 |
| PH Philippines | PSA — Most Common Baby Names (2017–present) | 2023 | 558 | #11 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 230 | #369 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 209 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 46 | #1,954 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 7 | — |
| ZA South Africa | Stats SA — Recorded Live Births (P0305): top-10 baby forenames & surnames | 2024 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Princess mean, and where does it come from?
- A female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter of a monarch. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Princess a male or female name?
- Princess is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Princess?
- A machine transcription gives /pɹɪnsɛs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Princess have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 127 thousand people named Princess in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled princess.
- How common is the name Princess?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,300 people named Princess in 2020, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Princess compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Princess is the 477th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/princessThe 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, “Princess” — the 477th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.