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English name meaning 'prince'
The word came to England via Old French prince = 'prince', 'noble lord' (12c.), from Latin princeps = 'first man', 'chief leader', 'ruler', 'sovereign', which is a noun use of an adjective meaning 'that takes first', from primus = 'first' (see Primus) and the root of capere = 'to take' [1]
Prince | ♂ |
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For female forms see Princess
- Danish | |
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Nominative: | Prince |
Genitive: | Princes |
- Finnish | |
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Nominative: | Prince |
Genitive: | Princen |
Partitive: | Princeä |
- Swedish | |
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Nominative: | Prince |
Genitive: | Princes |
Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
Sweden[3] |
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209 | 572 | 0 | 2 | 209 | 570 |
Denmark[4] |
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81 | n.a. |
1 | n.a. |
80 | n.a. |
Finland[2] |
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n.a. |
136 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
136 |
Iceland[5] |
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3 | 4 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[6] |
|
102 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
102 | n.a. |
Greenland[7] |
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0 | 0 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only | |||||||
&: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Prince.