Prima
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: female equivalent of primo (“female cousin”)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/prˈima/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Prima is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 35K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 142K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈53,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
female equivalent of primo (“female cousin”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Prima is read(measured from records)
Prima is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Indonesian44%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Prima in Indonesian.
- Spanish21%
female equivalent of primo (“female cousin”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English21%
most important
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Prima 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #725 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | listed | Prima | 150 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Prima | 22 |
| US United States | — | 578 | 1 in 576K | 570 | Prima | 53 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 142K | 23 | — | — |
| UG Uganda | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 171K | 1 | — | 5 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Prima | 9 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Prima is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Primogenita
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Primogénita
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Dutch, excellent
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In Norwegian Bokmål, only used in a prima vista (“sight-read”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Prima Rusdib. 1967IDIndonesian writer
- Prima Simpatiajib. 1981IDtennis player (1981-)
- Agripina Prima Rahmantob. 1991IDIndonesian badminton player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 167 | #111,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 159 | #110,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 155 | #106,477 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 23 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Prima mean, and where does it come from?
- female equivalent of primo (“female cousin”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Prima?
- A machine transcription gives /prˈima/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Prima a male or female name?
- Prima 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.
- In which country does Prima have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 53 thousand people named Prima in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prima.
- How common is the name Prima?
- In the United States, the national register counted 578 people named Prima in 2020, about 1 in 576 thousand residents.
- How common is Prima compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Prima is the 725th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Prima?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/primaThe 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, “Prima” — the 725th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.