girls:
550 births since 1903
#5166 (10th percentile)
boys:
22.1k births since 1880
#771 (83rd percentile)
overall:
22.6k births since 1880
#1686 (78th percentile)
The name Prince is the #1,686 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,611 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 78.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #771 (83.2% percentile) for all time with 22,061 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,166 (9.6% percentile) for all time with 550 births since 1903.
Prince has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1903 for girls).
The name Prince has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Prince reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 68.6% percentile (ranked #289) with 604 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 604 births per million (ranked 68.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Prince ranks #342 for boys (62.5% percentile) with 483 births per million, which is 80.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Prince reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #672) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 27 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Prince".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Prince. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.0% confident that Prince is pronounced as prihns, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is preens, at 10.0% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like P R IH1 N S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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