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prince Name Meaning and History

  1. English and French: nickname from Middle English, Old French prince (Latin princeps), presumably denoting someone who behaved in a regal manner or who had won the title in some contest of skill.
  2. Translation of German and Ashkenazic Jewish Prinz or of a word meaning ‘prince’ in some other language.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of prince Families in the US in 1920
Number of prince families
 245-488
 82-244
 1-81
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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