Princess
Fewer than 50 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one. It's the English word for a king's daughter, used as a given name.
Princess Pronunciation
What Princess means
Where Princess comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Princess worked as a common noun long before anyone used it as a name. It reached English through Old French princesse, from Latin princeps, the chief or leading citizen, built from primus and capere, to take first. The word named a rank. Handing it to a daughter came much later, mostly among English speakers.
As a given name it holds its dictionary sense: princess, a royal daughter. It has no inherited diminutives and no masculine counterpart. On a Polish class register it would sit apart, with no imieniny to mark, since no saint carries it.
The cultural pull is English, the sense of a pampered favourite attached to the word after its royal one. Look past that association and the origin is plain. It comes from princeps, first in rank, and means princess, royal daughter.
How many people are named Princess
1 in 524275 women in Poland is named Princess. 43 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5886 among female names.
Princess as a middle name
Princess is a first name for 43 women in Poland and a middle name for another 21, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1588th, between Placyda (21) and Rafaella (21).
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#1586 Patrycia21
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#1587 Placyda21
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#1588 Princess21
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#1589 Rafaella21
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#1590 Robyn21