Meaning not yet researched.
Prince: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 703 in 2025. Its best rank was #297 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #297 in 2019; #447 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Prince in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#447 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #297.
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Prince: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 703 boys in 2025. Peak: #297 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 1,164 (2019).
In 2025, 703 US boys were named Prince, making it the 447th most common boys’ name of the year, down 46 places from #401 in 2024. That is 103 fewer than the 806 boys named Prince in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #297, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,164. For comparison, it was #386 in 2015 and #969 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Prince in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 16 babies with the name. In all, 24,151 US babies have been given the name, 2.3% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 8,095 babies named Prince.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,606 US boys were named Prince; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 1,164. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,430 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Prince ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #226 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Prynce (651 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Prince in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 14 | #226 | #382 |
| Georgia | 52 | #238 | #247 |
| North Carolina | 43 | #292 | #289 |
| Connecticut | 10 | #318 | #436 |
| Florida | 62 | #319 | #274 |
| New York | 57 | #320 | #250 |
| South Carolina | 17 | #324 | #364 |
| Indiana | 21 | #363 | #532 |
| Iowa | 10 | #368 | — |
| Ohio | 30 | #376 | #346 |
| Alabama | 14 | #394 | #407 |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | #413 | #324 |
| Missouri | 16 | #415 | #645 |
| Illinois | 25 | #441 | #369 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #455 | #241 |
| New Jersey | 17 | #463 | #286 |
| Maryland | 11 | #468 | #305 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #470 | #371 |
| Minnesota | 12 | #472 | #696 |
| Michigan | 18 | #478 | #447 |
| Virginia | 16 | #490 | #370 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #496 | #621 |
| Texas | 68 | #497 | #365 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #513 | #586 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #520 | #379 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #539 | #421 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #544 | #341 |
| Utah | 7 | #603 | — |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #606 | #435 |
| Colorado | 8 | #666 | — |
| California | 40 | #692 | #487 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,008 | #396 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,113 | #587 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 703 | #447 |
| 2024 | — | — | 806 | #401 |
| 2023 | — | — | 894 | #364 |
| 2022 | — | — | 943 | #349 |
| 2021 | — | — | 978 | #333 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,052 | #315 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,164 | #297 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,066 | #317 |
| 2017 | — | — | 988 | #345 |
| 2016 | — | — | 1,012 | #343 |
| 2015 | — | — | 830 | #386 |
| 2014 | — | — | 755 | #411 |
| 2013 | — | — | 634 | #450 |
| 2012 | — | — | 594 | #458 |
| 2011 | — | — | 551 | #479 |
| 2010 | — | — | 501 | #515 |
| 2009 | — | — | 351 | #692 |
| 2008 | — | — | 302 | #748 |
| 2007 | — | — | 273 | #791 |
| 2006 | — | — | 247 | #826 |
| 2005 | — | — | 232 | #815 |
| 2004 | — | — | 228 | #794 |
| 2003 | — | — | 202 | #856 |
| 2002 | — | — | 161 | #982 |
| 2001 | — | — | 164 | #947 |
| 2000 | — | — | 176 | #891 |
| 1999 | — | — | 152 | #954 |
| 1998 | — | — | 172 | #852 |
| 1997 | — | — | 123 | #1,043 |
| 1996 | — | — | 96 | #1,192 |
| 1995 | — | — | 105 | #1,117 |
| 1994 | — | — | 95 | #1,175 |
| 1993 | — | — | 118 | #1,014 |
| 1992 | — | — | 129 | #949 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,761 | 135 | #905 |
| 1990 | — | — | 126 | #918 |
| 1989 | — | — | 134 | #874 |
| 1988 | — | — | 138 | #807 |
| 1987 | — | — | 122 | #850 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,276 | 150 | #742 |
| 1985 | — | — | 195 | #630 |
| 1984 | — | — | 206 | #589 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,511 | 167 | #662 |
| 1982 | — | — | 137 | #756 |
| 1981 | — | — | 146 | #715 |
| 1980 | — | — | 131 | #768 |
| 1979 | — | — | 92 | #916 |
| 1978 | — | — | 73 | #1,026 |
| 1977 | — | — | 59 | #1,136 |
| 1976 | — | — | 65 | #1,037 |
| 1975 | — | — | 39 | #1,421 |
| 1974 | — | — | 59 | #1,079 |
| 1973 | — | — | 63 | #1,021 |
| 1972 | — | — | 49 | #1,173 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,248 | 52 | #1,143 |
| 1970 | — | — | 51 | #1,165 |
| 1969 | — | — | 44 | #1,194 |
| 1968 | — | — | 55 | #1,002 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,565 | 45 | #1,110 |
| 1966 | — | — | 46 | #1,097 |
| 1965 | — | — | 48 | #1,078 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,571 | 70 | #911 |
| 1963 | — | — | 64 | #945 |
| 1962 | — | — | 63 | #964 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,467 | 55 | #1,055 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,386 | 61 | #979 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,546 | 64 | #968 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,279 | 55 | #1,035 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,255 | 81 | #841 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,390 | 74 | #873 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,302 | 75 | #851 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,903 | 73 | #861 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,629 | 71 | #856 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,897 | 58 | #936 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,783 | 66 | #866 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,912 | 52 | #969 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,857 | 77 | #787 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,096 | 58 | #908 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,427 | 67 | #850 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,615 | 64 | #823 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,936 | 52 | #879 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,448 | 54 | #865 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,579 | 62 | #843 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,157 | 45 | #1,001 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,193 | 51 | #894 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,777 | 60 | #808 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,354 | 56 | #817 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,698 | 66 | #754 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,172 | 62 | #785 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,063 | 55 | #826 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,370 | 59 | #811 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,539 | 49 | #908 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,130 | 51 | #873 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,610 | 63 | #810 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,722 | 49 | #936 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,598 | 63 | #823 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,882 | 64 | #811 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,479 | 70 | #778 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,237 | 69 | #804 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,841 | 73 | #757 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,315 | 75 | #764 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,613 | 96 | #663 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,311 | 66 | #839 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,575 | 97 | #652 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,615 | 82 | #732 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,060 | 80 | #730 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,967 | 80 | #702 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,788 | 90 | #649 |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,038 | 86 | #644 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,301 | 85 | #633 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,368 | 80 | #650 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,398 | 69 | #607 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,135 | 50 | #634 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,816 | 49 | #579 |
| 1911 | — | — | 31 | #544 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,903 | 38 | #451 |
| 1909 | — | — | 30 | #467 |
| 1908 | — | — | 25 | #511 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,485 | 17 | #630 |
| 1906 | — | — | 20 | #518 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,882 | 24 | #460 |
| 1904 | — | — | 29 | #387 |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,020 | 23 | #427 |
| 1902 | — | — | 21 | #471 |
| 1901 | — | — | 29 | #345 |
| 1900 | — | — | 22 | #510 |
| 1899 | — | — | 15 | #516 |
| 1898 | — | — | 14 | #600 |
| 1897 | — | — | 19 | #454 |
| 1896 | — | — | 26 | #385 |
| 1895 | — | — | 18 | #486 |
| 1894 | — | — | 13 | #589 |
| 1893 | — | — | 14 | #530 |
| 1892 | — | — | 19 | #456 |
| 1891 | — | — | 26 | #338 |
| 1890 | — | — | 18 | #430 |
| 1889 | — | — | 14 | #515 |
| 1888 | — | — | 19 | #439 |
| 1887 | — | — | 18 | #402 |
| 1886 | — | — | 22 | #378 |
| 1885 | — | — | 21 | #394 |
| 1884 | — | — | 17 | #465 |
| 1883 | — | — | 18 | #430 |
| 1882 | — | — | 18 | #435 |
| 1881 | — | — | 17 | #429 |
| 1880 | — | — | 16 | #459 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).