As the name Prince, Princess was derived from the English word for the royal title. The words are based on the Latin ‘princeps’.
Princess is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Princess 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 girls names, Princess ranks 803. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Princess. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Princess.
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 girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, P is by no means the rarest initial. While A, S and M are the most common first letters of girls' names, Q, X and U are the least common initials of feminine first names.
With eight letters, the name Princess is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.6% of all girls’ names begin with a P, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a P, Patricia is currently the most common.
If your name is Princess 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 Princess, you can simply say:
Pig
Rocket
Igloo
Nut
Cat
Elephant
Sun
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Princess
Princess
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
R
I
N
C
E
S
S
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.
P
R
I
N
C
E
S
S
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. Princess sounds like this:
