Prince

Where Prince comes from

The dictionaries list Prince as a given name — a male given name from English in occasional use — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #442 among boys — 16 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1958
    Prince born
    American musician
  3. 1986
    Prince Tagoe born
    Ghanaian footballer
  4. 2019
    Peak, #297
    1,164 babies named Prince — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from English in occasional use.
Namesakes
  • Prince · American musician, 1958–2016
  • Prince Tagoe · Ghanaian footballer, born 1986
  • Prince Buster · Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer, 1938–2016
  • Prince Oniangue · Congolese and French footballer, born 1988
  • Prince Kwabena Adu · Ghanaian footballer, born 2003

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.