How popular is the name Princess?

Princess ranks 1,068th among girls' names in US records, with 15,833 births since 1895. Over the past decade it accounts for 3,214.

Is Princess a unisex name?

No. Princess is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

2006, when 400 children were given the name. It has been in use for 130 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,068 of girl names

Pronounced P R IH1 N S EH0 S (ARPABET)

Princess is a girls' name, and first appears in 1895. It has been given to 15,833 children — the 1,068th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 2006, when 400 children were given it.

2006Girls: 400Boys: 0

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Princess?: Princess ranks 1,068th among girls' names in US records, with 15,833 births since 1895. Over the past decade it accounts for 3,214.
Is Princess a unisex name?: No. Princess is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Princess most popular?: 2006, when 400 children were given the name. It has been in use for 130 years and is still recorded as of 2024.