Prïns

given name · Latin script

Prïns is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Dutch Prins. Doublet of Prince.

  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 52K
  • DKDenmark1 in 82K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

14,894 people, 2007

Record sources
39 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Prins in NL Netherlands, US United States, BR Brazil and 2 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)

Borrowed from Dutch Prins. Doublet of Prince.

Cited for this meaning 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Prïns is found

(measured from records)

Prïns 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 Prïns is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands14,8941 in 1.2K15KPrins23
US United States2,1021 in 158K2.1KPrins34
BR Brazil3311 in 640K331Prins39
BE Belgium2271 in 52K234Prins12
ES Spain931 in 538K93Prins20
DK Denmark721 in 82K72——
NO Norway421 in 130K42——

14,894 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Prïns is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, South Africa, Canada

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Prins, Prīns, Prįńš, Prîns, Přïňš

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Netherlands, South Africa, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Prins, Pŕîňš

1 further group 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Prïns mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Dutch Prins. Doublet of Prince. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Prïns?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Prïns, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prins. After it come United States, Brazil, Belgium and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Prïns most common?
Prïns is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Prïns?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 14,894 people named Prïns in 2007, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.

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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, “Prïns”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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