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How popular is Princess?
#1,120 girl name in 2025
209 baby girls were named Princess in the US in 2025, making it the 1120th most popular girl name.
Princess popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,120 for girls (▲ 20 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 209 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-24% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #985 in 2015, #795 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2006 (400 girls) |
| Highest rank | #613 in 1986 |
| First recorded | 1895 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Princess counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Princess family of names ranked #949 for girls in 2025 (#963 the year before), with 223 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Princess | 209 | 94% |
| Pryncess | 7 | 3% |
| Princesse | 7 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Princess is most popular
Babies named Princess per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Louisiana: 0.5 per 1,000 (40 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.4 per 1,000 (35 girls)
- Mississippi: 0.4 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- Georgia: 0.4 per 1,000 (84 girls)
- Maryland: 0.3 per 1,000 (32 girls)
Princess by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 17 | #1,416 |
| 1900s | 53 | #1,229 |
| 1910s | 145 | #1,439 |
| 1920s | 190 | #1,751 |
| 1930s | 156 | #1,679 |
| 1940s | 271 | #1,385 |
| 1950s | 488 | #1,125 |
| 1960s | 865 | #1,026 |
| 1970s | 845 | #966 |
| 1980s | 2,495 | #613 |
| 1990s | 2,412 | #757 |
| 2000s | 3,260 | #685 |
| 2010s | 3,145 | #739 |
| 2020s | 1,633 | #795 |
Girl names about as popular as Princess
Questions
- Is Princess a boy or girl name?
- Princess is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Princess were girls.
- How popular is the name Princess?
- 209 baby girls were named Princess in the US in 2025, making it the 1120th most popular girl name.
- When was Princess most popular?
- Princess peaked in 2006, when 400 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #613 in 1986.
- How many people are named Princess?
- 15,982 babies have been named Princess in the US since 1880. We estimate about 14,987 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 25.
- Where is Princess most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Princess was most common in Louisiana, at 0.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.