Princess
#1,120 for girls in 2025, 209 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,229
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 313 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,975since 1895
Princess over time
Rank among girls' names. Princess has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,120 | 209 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,140 | 212 | — | |
| 2023 | #921 | 288 | — | |
| 2022 | #963 | 278 | — | |
| 2021 | #891 | 303 | — | |
| 2020 | #795 | 343 | — | |
| 2019 | #765 | 365 | — | |
| 2018 | #743 | 373 | — | |
| 2017 | #739 | 383 | — | |
| 2016 | #757 | 377 | — | |
| 2015 | #985 | 274 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,008 | 259 | — | |
| 2013 | #971 | 259 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,014 | 249 | — | |
| 2011 | #852 | 309 | — | |
| 2010 | #892 | 297 | — | |
| 2009 | #898 | 304 | — | |
| 2008 | #935 | 291 | — | |
| 2007 | #826 | 347 | — | |
| 2006 | #713 | 400 | — | |
| 2005 | #730 | 371 | — | |
| 2004 | #744 | 353 | — | |
| 2003 | #685 | 383 | — | |
| 2002 | #856 | 269 | — | |
| 2001 | #870 | 263 | — | |
| 2000 | #811 | 279 | — | |
| 1999 | #827 | 261 | — | |
| 1998 | #793 | 270 | — | |
| 1997 | #855 | 239 | — | |
| 1996 | #923 | 212 | — | |
| 1995 | #881 | 216 | — | |
| 1994 | #908 | 210 | — | |
| 1993 | #799 | 253 | — | |
| 1992 | #865 | 228 | — | |
| 1991 | #819 | 251 | — | |
| 1990 | #758 | 272 | — | |
| 1989 | #678 | 301 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #685 | 280 | — | |
| 1987 | #754 | 238 | — | |
| 1986 | #613 | 313 | — | |
| 1985 | #675 | 267 | — | |
| 1984 | #664 | 262 | — | |
| 1983 | #677 | 252 | — | |
| 1982 | #753 | 220 | — | |
| 1981 | #835 | 187 | — | |
| 1980 | #875 | 175 | — | |
| 1979 | #966 | 149 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,176 | 107 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,303 | 89 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,482 | 70 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,430 | 73 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,323 | 80 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,329 | 76 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,578 | 58 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,427 | 73 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,452 | 70 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,648 | 53 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,387 | 65 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,133 | 87 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,119 | 89 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,075 | 95 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,097 | 99 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,026 | 108 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,138 | 92 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,126 | 95 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,199 | 82 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,126 | 90 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,322 | 64 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,588 | 46 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,480 | 51 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,383 | 52 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,648 | 38 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,503 | 42 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,680 | 34 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,528 | 38 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,626 | 33 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,627 | 33 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,386 | 44 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,752 | 30 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,678 | 28 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,660 | 25 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,742 | 23 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,751 | 24 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,981 | 19 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,569 | 25 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,792 | 20 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,947 | 17 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,340 | 13 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,679 | 21 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,950 | 16 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,305 | 13 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,187 | 14 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,052 | 15 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,817 | 19 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,105 | 15 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,425 | 13 | — | |
| 1929 | #2,587 | 12 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,497 | 13 | — | |
| 1927 | #1,935 | 20 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,569 | 13 | — | |
| 1925 | #1,795 | 23 | — | |
| 1924 | #1,811 | 23 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,091 | 18 | — | |
| 1922 | #1,897 | 21 | — | |
| 1921 | #1,765 | 24 | — | |
| 1920 | #1,751 | 23 | — | |
| 1919 | #1,855 | 20 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,376 | 14 | — | |
| 1917 | #1,652 | 22 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,133 | 15 | — | |
| 1915 | #1,439 | 25 | — | |
| 1914 | #1,818 | 14 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,540 | 7 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,360 | 7 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,450 | 11 | — | |
| 1910 | #1,521 | 10 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,763 | 7 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,357 | 10 | — | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | #1,229 | 10 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,486 | 7 | — | |
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | #1,594 | 6 | — | |
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | #1,431 | 8 | — | |
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | #1,700 | 5 | — | |
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | #1,416 | 6 | — | |
| 1895 | #1,426 | 6 | — | |
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Princess! It came in at #1,426, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1897–1899, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Princess
- 20 spots since 2024 (#1,140 → #1,120)
- 325 spots since 2020 (#795 → #1,120)
- 135 spots since 2015 (#985 → #1,120)
- Biggest jump: 228 spots in 2016 (#985 → #757)
- Biggest drop: 219 spots in 2024 (#921 → #1,140)
- Debuted 1895
- Peaked 1986 at #613 (313 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1979–2011
- Highest: 1 in 4,508 girls born in 2017 were named Princess (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,690 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #613 in 1986, was only 1 in 5,481 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.4% of all girls named Princess (3,260) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 17 | #1,416 (1896) | #1,514 |
| 1900s | 53 | #1,229 (1906) | #1,542 |
| 1910s | 145 | #1,439 (1915) | #1,914 |
| 1920s | 190 | #1,751 (1920) | #2,070 |
| 1930s | 156 | #1,679 (1937) | #2,081 |
| 1940s | 271 | #1,386 (1948) | #1,694 |
| 1950s | 488 | #1,126 (1959) | #1,488 |
| 1960s | 865 | #1,026 (1963) | #1,195 |
| 1970s | 845 | #966 (1979) | #1,347 |
| 1980s | 2,495 | #613 (1986) | #721 |
| 1990s | 2,412 | #758 (1990) | #843 |
| 2000s | 3,260 | #685 (2003) | #807 |
| 2010s | 3,145 | #739 (2017) | #873 |
| 2020s | 1,633 | #795 (2020) | #972 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Princess in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 6,125 of them was named Princess, which outranked 95.3% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 285,847 of them was named Princess, which outranked 32.5% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,615Zeshan8
- #5,615Zeus8
- #5,615Zong8
- #6,229Princess7
- #6,229Aarin7
- #6,229Aaryn7
- #6,229Abby7
- #6,941Aaran6
- #6,941Abayomi6
- #6,941Abrham6
Tied with 711 names at #6,229; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.