The name Prince comes from the English word ‘prince’, a royal title, which comes ultimately from Latin ‘princeps’ (meaning ‘the first man, first person’).
Prince is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Prince isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Prince ranks 344. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 5 were named Prince. In the entire USA, approximately 16,897 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Prince. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Prince comes from the English word ‘prince’, a royal title, which comes ultimately from Latin ‘princeps’ (meaning ‘the first man, first person’).
In the US,... Prince is a well-known, but rare name that has been given since at least the 18th century.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Prince annualy. This means that there have been boys named Prince who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Prince have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2019, it holds its present record of #291 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Prince was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Prince has never been ranked higher than #291. In 2022, he rivaled the 339 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 938 boys named Prince were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Prince were born, there have been 129 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But P is by no means the rarest initial. While X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Prince is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with a P, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a P, Paul is currently the most common.
If your name is Prince and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Prince, you can simply say:
Pig
Rocket
Igloo
Nut
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Prince
Prince
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Prince sounds like this:
