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Boy · English, from Latin
Prince
Say it: PRINS
Meaning
The English word prince, from Latin princeps 'first, chief'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Frequent among free and enslaved Black men in 18th-century New England.
Its wave through time
Rising now
In the United States
- 19,759 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2019, about 1 in 1,600 boys
- 1,020 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Prince Hall, founder of African American Freemasonry
- Prince Estabrook, Black Minuteman at Lexington
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Where this comes from
- Colonial records of the Americas
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.