Meaning not yet researched.
Princess: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 209 in 2025. Its best rank was #613 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #613 in 1986; #1,122 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Princess in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,122 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #613.
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Princess: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 209 girls in 2025. Peak: #613 in 1986 · most girls in one year: 400 (2006).
In 2025, 209 US girls were named Princess, making it the 1,122nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 24 places from #1,146 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 212 girls named Princess in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #613, reached in 1986. The most girls given the name in a single year was 400, in 2006. For comparison, it was #988 in 2015 and #1,646 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Princess in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1895 with 6 babies. In all, 15,982 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,260 babies named Princess.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,131 US girls were named Princess; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 383. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,690 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Princess ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #505 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Pryncess, Princes and Princesse are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Pryncess (104), Princes (81), Princesse (30).
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 Princess in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 23 | #505 | #613 |
| Alabama | 8 | #622 | #538 |
| Iowa | 5 | #657 | — |
| North Carolina | 13 | #766 | #703 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #769 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #887 | #416 |
| Florida | 17 | #947 | #534 |
| Maryland | 5 | #961 | #764 |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,035 | #1,446 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,048 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,088 | #1,368 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,097 | #1,411 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,168 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,266 | #912 |
| New York | 11 | #1,293 | #1,359 |
| California | 19 | #1,309 | #1,322 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,344 | #920 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,645 | #728 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 209 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 2024 | 212 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 2023 | 288 | #922 | — | — |
| 2022 | 278 | #963 | — | — |
| 2021 | 303 | #894 | — | — |
| 2020 | 343 | #795 | — | — |
| 2019 | 365 | #765 | — | — |
| 2018 | 373 | #744 | — | — |
| 2017 | 383 | #740 | — | — |
| 2016 | 377 | #758 | — | — |
| 2015 | 274 | #988 | — | — |
| 2014 | 259 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 2013 | 259 | #973 | — | — |
| 2012 | 249 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 2011 | 309 | #856 | — | — |
| 2010 | 297 | #894 | — | — |
| 2009 | 304 | #898 | — | — |
| 2008 | 291 | #938 | — | — |
| 2007 | 347 | #830 | — | — |
| 2006 | 400 | #713 | — | — |
| 2005 | 371 | #731 | — | — |
| 2004 | 353 | #745 | — | — |
| 2003 | 383 | #686 | — | — |
| 2002 | 269 | #860 | — | — |
| 2001 | 263 | #871 | — | — |
| 2000 | 279 | #813 | — | — |
| 1999 | 261 | #829 | — | — |
| 1998 | 270 | #796 | — | — |
| 1997 | 239 | #855 | — | — |
| 1996 | 212 | #925 | — | — |
| 1995 | 216 | #882 | — | — |
| 1994 | 210 | #910 | — | — |
| 1993 | 253 | #799 | — | — |
| 1992 | 228 | #871 | — | — |
| 1991 | 251 | #820 | — | — |
| 1990 | 272 | #760 | — | — |
| 1989 | 301 | #679 | 7 | #6,752 |
| 1988 | 280 | #690 | — | — |
| 1987 | 238 | #758 | — | — |
| 1986 | 313 | #613 | — | — |
| 1985 | 267 | #677 | — | — |
| 1984 | 262 | #664 | — | — |
| 1983 | 252 | #678 | — | — |
| 1982 | 220 | #754 | — | — |
| 1981 | 187 | #839 | — | — |
| 1980 | 175 | #878 | — | — |
| 1979 | 149 | #968 | — | — |
| 1978 | 107 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1977 | 89 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1976 | 70 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1975 | 73 | #1,436 | — | — |
| 1974 | 80 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1973 | 76 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1972 | 58 | #1,587 | — | — |
| 1971 | 73 | #1,438 | — | — |
| 1970 | 70 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1969 | 53 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1968 | 65 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 1967 | 87 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1966 | 89 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1965 | 95 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1964 | 99 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1963 | 108 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1962 | 92 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 1961 | 95 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1960 | 82 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1959 | 90 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1958 | 64 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 1955 | 52 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 1948 | 44 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,027 | — | — |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,596 | — | — |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 1939 | 17 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,420 | — | — |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 1936 | 16 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,413 | — | — |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,132 | — | — |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,189 | — | — |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,535 | — | — |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,700 | — | — |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,595 | — | — |
| 1927 | 20 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,855 | — | — |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,151 | — | — |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,484 | — | — |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,698 | — | — |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,223 | — | — |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,761 | — | — |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,584 | — | — |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,924 | — | — |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,172 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,559 | — | — |
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).