Price
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 48 babies a year in the US.
Price by the numbers
Price was given to 48 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 64 babies in 2006, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Price
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Price. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Princeson of a king; royal title978 in the US (2017)
- Pryceprice; value; a form of Price43 in the US (2017)
- Prynceson of a king; royal title; modern respelling of Prince53 in the US (2017)
- Patriceof noble birth; a form of Patrick3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Primofirst, principal, prime6 in the US (2017)
- Peircevariant of Pierce; one who pierces5 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Price
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