Prinz

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Originally from an earlier form of the city of Florence, “Florenca” as F-R-N-Z.-

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/pʁɪnt͡s/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 211K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 23K
  • FIFinland1 in 99K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,578 people, 2010

Sources
223 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Originally from an earlier form of the city of Florence, “Florenca” as F-R-N-Z.-

Sources 1

  • The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Prinz 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 Prinz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,5781 in 211K1.6KPrinz223
CH Switzerland3611 in 23K361—20
BR Brazil2131 in 994K213—1
PL Poland1751 in 219K92—1
CZ Czechia741 in 145K74——
FI Finland561 in 99K56—2
NO Norway481 in 114K48—2

1,578 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)

Prinz is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Prïnz, Prînz, Priñz, Prïnż, Přinž

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Switzerland

    Also written Prînz, Prïnz

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Prìñz, Prįnz, Pŕïñž

  • Norwegian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Pṙîňz, Prînz, Prìñz

47 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)

Prinz 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 German, personal-characteristic surname from mhd. prinze 'prince, governor'; bearers: 4782

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • In German, from Prinz 'prince'; sometimes from Brinno/Brünst

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, prince

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German

  • In German, ornamental surname from Prinz 'prince'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In dlm, breakfast

    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)

1850190019502000Wilhelm Prinz, b. 1857LeRoy Prinz, b. 1895Joachim Prinz, b. 1902Dietrich Prinz, b. 1903Alfred Prinz, b. 1930Wolfgang Prinz, b. 1942Isabel Prinz, b. 1956Hary Prinz, b. 1965Birgit Prinz, b. 1977Thies Prinz, b. 1998

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 32 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Prinz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.6K#17,752
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.5K#16,977
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.5K#18,149
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024361#3,651
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—213#34,903
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202692—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—92#32,119
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202683—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—83#34,349
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—74#21,530
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—74#8,882
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—56#20,658

Reference works 4

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 Prinz mean, and where does it come from?
Originally from an earlier form of the city of Florence, “Florenca” as F-R-N-Z.- Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
How do you pronounce Prinz?
A machine transcription gives /pʁɪnt͡s/ (IPA) for German.
In which country does Prinz have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Prinz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prinz.
Where is Prinz most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Prinz is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Prinz?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,578 people named Prinz in 2010, about 1 in 211 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, “Prinz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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