Prince
The name is the royal title itself: prince, in Polish książę. Barely 140 people in Poland carry it, nearly all of them men, so most Poles have never met one.
Prince Pronunciation
Prince is pronounced PREEN-tse (/ˈprint͡sɛ/).
What Prince means
Where Prince comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Prince belongs to the small family of names taken straight from a title. It means what it says: prince, the royal rank. The English-speaking world adopted it as a first name, and it wears that borrowed grandeur openly.
The Polish word for the rank is książę. That word grew from Proto-Slavic *kъnędzь, an old term for a chief or ruler, the same root that gave Polish ksiądz its sense of authority. So the meaning behind Prince sits deep in Slavic soil, even when the name itself sounds English.
One bearer settled the name's modern reputation. Prince Rogers Nelson, the musician from Minneapolis, made it a single word known everywhere. His birth name was no stage invention.
On a Polish class register, Prince stands out at once. It carries no diminutive and no variant, so it stays whole wherever it goes. What it offers is plain: książę, a royal title turned into a name.
How many people are named Prince
1 in 156957 men in Poland is named Prince. 138 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2809 among male names.
Prince's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Prince as a middle name
Prince is a first name for 138 men in Poland and a middle name for another 49, a 74/26 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1085th, between Olek (49) and Sasza (49).
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#1083 Nahuel49
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#1084 Olek49
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#1085 Prince49
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#1086 Sasza49
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#1087 Tapio49