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How popular is the name Princess?
Births per year, rank history and how many Princesses are alive today.
Princess (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 1051st in 2025 and given to 32 babies. The name peaked in 2010, when 144 babies were given the name, the 324th most popular that year. It has declined since 2010; the 2025 figure is roughly 22% of its peak. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Princess you are most likely to meet is around 16 years old. Half of all Princesses born in England and Wales are between 10 and 19, and there are at least 1,600 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Princess - on average, only one in every 197 such rooms contains a Princess.
How many babies are named Princess each year?
Where does Princess rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Princess most popular?
Princess peaked in 2010, when 144 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Princess?
At least 1,600 people named Princess born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Princess?
Most living Princesses are between 10 and 19; the most common age is about 16.
Is Princess becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2010 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.