Baby Names That Mean Princess, Queen, or King

Parents who want a baby name that means princess are usually picturing one word on a card. The pages we can source often say more than that word. Lady sits beside princess. Queen is a different gloss. King, for a boy, is often half of a longer line.

Every meaning below comes from our name database, and every name links to its page. A short line and an etymology note can disagree. Print the note when you would actually say it. Spellings we cannot confirm sit in their own section.

Girls' names that mean princess

Eleven names we publish use princess in the etymology note. Zara is not one of them. Its short line adds princess, and the note says flower. That case is further down.

Sadie shows "Princess (from Sarah)," with Hebrew on the card. The note calls it a diminutive of Sarah, from Biblical Hebrew, "lady, princess." A card that keeps only princess has dropped lady. Sadie ranked #50 in 2025 with 4,168 girls, about 1 in 386 of the 1,607,267 girls in the file. In 2015 the count was 4,763 at rank #52: the rank number moved from 52 to 50 while the count fell. The high is 4,871 girls in 2014. Boys were under five in 2025.

Sarah shows "Princess," origin field Hebrew. The note says Biblical Hebrew, "lady, princess." Sarah ranked #90 in 2025 with 2,710 girls, down from 4,535 in 2015 and from 21,395 in 1995. The high is 28,483 girls in 1982, plus 125 boys that year. The 2025 file has no boys' count.

Amira shows "Princess," from Arabic, and the note says princess alone. Lady does not belong on an Amira card. Amira ranked #132 in 2025 with 2,168 girls, up from 859 in 2015. The girls' high is 2,182 in 2024, so 2025 is 14 girls under that high. Five boys received it in 2024. Boys were under five in 2025.

Sara shows "lady, princess," origin field Biblical Hebrew. The note calls it a variant of Sarah and keeps both words. Sara ranked #198 in 2025 with 1,568 girls, down from 1,982 in 2015 and from a 1981 high of 11,359. Amirah shows "princess," a variant of Amira, and the note matches. It ranked #490 with 603 girls, down from a 2024 high of 678 and up from 427 in 2015 (rank #670).

Sally shows "lady, princess." The note calls it a diminutive of Sarah. Sally ranked #1,158 in 2025 with 201 girls, down from 222 in 2015 (rank #1,141) and from a 1947 high of 5,265.

Orla means "golden princess," from Irish, and the note matches. Orla had 70 girls in 2025, rank #2,532, beside a 2024 high of 71, up from 30 in 2015 (rank #4,687). Fall baby names already uses Orla for the gold.

Sallie keeps "lady, princess" as another Sarah diminutive: 33 girls, rank #4,340, under a 1947 high of 605. Rani means "a queen, princess, the wife of a king," from Sanskrit, and the note matches: 31 girls, rank #4,528, high 44 in 1971. Sera is Hebrew "lady, princess" on its own note: 20 girls, rank #6,082. Sahra, a Sarah variant, uses those same two words: 15 girls, rank #7,437.

Names that mean queen

Queen is its own gloss. The names below are the ones whose note says it.

Regina means "queen," from Latin, and the note matches. Regina ranked #395 in 2025 with 786 girls, down from 911 in 2024 and from a 1962 high of 5,002. The 2015 count is 608 girls.

Malika means "queen," from Arabic, and the note matches. Malika had 64 girls in 2025, rank #2,711, up from 54 in 2015 (rank #3,113) and down from a 1996 high of 183.

Khaleesi shows "queen." The page names no language. Our file's first count is 28 girls in 2011. Earlier years are under five or absent. Khaleesi ranked #690 in 2025 with 410 girls, down from a 2018 high of 565 and up from 342 in 2015 (rank #822). Khalessi (55 girls, rank #3,011, the high), Kaleesi (27, rank #4,932), and Kahleesi (7, rank #12,508) point back to that same one-word note.

Juno shows "Queen of the heavens," with Latin on the card. The note says Proto-Indo-European, "she of heavenly authority." Juno ranked #1,252 in 2025 with 179 girls and 54 boys, both highs in the file. In 2015 there were 86 girls (rank #2,202) and 16 boys.

Quinton means "queen's town," from Old English, and the note matches: 235 boys in 2025, rank #976, down from 465 in 2015 (rank #595) and from a 1996 high of 871.

King and prince for boys

King and prince are different lines, and several familiar boys' names keep an extra word.

Rex means "king," from Latin, and the note matches: 281 boys in 2025, rank #859, down from 374 in 2015 (rank #680) and from a 1951 high of 1,503. Leroy means "the king," from French, and the note keeps the word the: 269 boys, rank #888, up from 209 in 2015 (rank #988), under a 1943 high of 3,741. Leeroy had 32 boys, and Elroy had 22. Each note calls the name a Leroy variant.

Brendan shows "Prince," with Irish on the card. The note says Old Welsh, "prince, king." Prince alone drops king, and the card's language is not the note's language. Brendan had 195 boys in 2025, rank #1,098, down from 826 in 2015 and from a 1999 high of 3,995. Brenden keeps both words on the short line: 43 boys, rank #2,891. Bren had 7 boys, rank #9,858.

Donald means "prince / chief of the world," from Proto-Celtic: 395 boys, rank #690, down from 696 in 2015 (rank #440) and from a 1954 high of 29,279. Donna uses the same gloss: 98 girls, rank #1,965, under a 1959 high of 36,468. Basil shows "of the king, kingly, royal," sharing that root with Vasilios. Basil had 74 boys and 23 girls, boys' rank #2,022. Vasilios had 18 boys, rank #5,377.

Amir is already in short baby names. The card says "Prince, commander," and the note says "commander, prince." In 2025 Amir had 3,297 boys and 11 girls, rank #105. The boys' high is 3,640 in 2024. Ameer carries the same two words: 233 boys, rank #980, down from 269 in 2015 (rank #835).

Ricardo shows "king, ruler + hard, brave," equivalent to Richard. Ricardo had 833 boys, rank #380, down from 1,340 in 2015 and from a 1998 high of 3,044. Richard's short line is "Strong ruler," already in baby names that mean strong. The note is the longer king line: 1,505 boys in 2025, rank #234. Ricky uses Ricardo's gloss: 248 boys and 15 girls, rank #949. Rory, in the fall guide, shows "Red king," and the note says "red-haired king": 1,768 boys and 1,332 girls in 2025, both highs, boys' rank #199.

When the title is only half the gloss

On these pages the title word sits inside a longer note.

Aubrey shows "Elf ruler," with French on the card. The note says Proto-Germanic, "elf, fairy" plus "king, ruler." King is in the note, beside elf, fairy, and ruler. Aubrey ranked #146 in 2025 with 2,003 girls and 70 boys, down from 7,403 girls in 2015 (rank #21).

Zara shows "Blooming flower; princess," with Arabic on the card. The note says "flower." Print flower, or skip the caption. Zara ranked #212 in 2025 with 1,432 girls, up from 809 in 2015 (rank #402), just under a 2022 high of 1,441.

Edrick means "wealth, riches + king, ruler," from Proto-Germanic. King is the second half. Edrick had 90 boys in 2025, rank #1,779. Balthazar means "May Bel protect the king," from Akkadian, and the note says that sentence literally. It had 7 boys in 2025, rank #9,824.

Spellings we will not call a title

The page marks the origin debated, gives a different word, or the name is not one we publish. A princess, queen, or king gloss stays off the announcement.

Kingston is the spelling this search usually pairs with king. The origin is debated, so this article gives Kingston no meaning. The theory is "King's town." Quinton is the town name we can source, and that page says queen's town. Kingston ranked #204 in 2025 with 1,725 boys, down from 2,971 boys in 2015. Eleven girls received it in 2015. Girls were under five in 2025.

Freya is in winter baby names. The short line is "Lady, noblewoman." The note says "mistress, lady." Freya ranked #176 in 2025 with 1,746 girls. Diana shows "Divine," and the note says "goddess": 1,277 girls, rank #244. Cleopatra means "glory of her father": 42 girls, rank #3,590. Jennifer is debated. The theory is "fair, white, smooth," as a form of Guinevere. Jennifer ranked #586 with 501 girls.

Princess, Queen, King, Malik, Reina, and Guinevere are not in our name database, so this article gives them no meaning.

Princess names by the numbers

Boys and girls are added together for the eleven names in the princess section, the ones whose note contains princess. Zara stays out. Counts under five babies per sex are missing, so the true total is a little higher.

The high for this set is 1982. Sarah (28,483 girls and 125 boys) and Sara (11,344 girls and 47 boys) were 39,999 of the 41,109. Sadie had 276 girls that year. In 2025, Sadie (4,168), Sarah (2,710), Amira (2,168), and Sara (1,568) were 10,614 of the 11,587. Those 11,587 babies were about 1 in 286 of the 3,315,343 babies in the 2025 file (1,708,076 boys and 1,607,267 girls).

The set rose from 11,306 in 2024 to 11,587 in 2025. Sadie rose by 430, from 3,738 to 4,168. The other ten names, added together, fell by 149.

How to choose a title you will still print

Five checks before the meaning goes on a card:

1. Print the whole gloss. Sarah is lady and princess. Amira is princess. Rani keeps queen, princess, and the wife of a king. Brendan's note is prince and king. Juno's note is she of heavenly authority. Zara's note is flower.
2. Match the spelling to the note you want. Sadie, Sarah, Sara, and Sally carry lady and princess. Amira says princess alone. Regina says queen. Rex says king, and Leroy says the king. Then hear the full name in the full name tester.
3. Say Khaleesi, Vasilios, and Balthazar out loud. A title that feels long as a first name can sit in the middle. The middle-name guide covers rhythm and initials.
4. Read the rhythm with your surname. First-name syllables are the counts on our pages. Surname syllables use the tester's estimator. Sadie Sullivan is 2 then 3, a rise and fall, and the shared S is marked as alliteration. Amira Sullivan is 3 then 3, a steady beat, and a mouthful at roll call. Rex Brooks is 1 then 1, which the tester flags as clipped. Rex Miller is 1 then 2, and that warning drops.
5. Read the curve, not only the rank. Sadie is #50, under the 2014 high, with rank 50 against 52 in 2015 and a smaller count. Amira is 14 girls under the 2024 high. Sarah, Regina, and Rex sit far below their highs. Every name page has the SSA history.

A name bracket compares two finalists, a shortlist lets family vote by link, and a partner match keeps the overlap. The name generator suggests more names in the same style.

On the announcement

A sourced gloss is a useful extra line when you would actually say it:

• Wall art: "Sarah: lady, princess," "Amira: princess," "Regina: queen," or "Rex: king." Leave the caption off when the note is a longer sentence (Rani, Brendan, Donald, Balthazar), when the origin is debated (Kingston, Jennifer), and for Zara's princess line and Juno's queen line.
• Announcements: the name, the date, and a meaning only when the page states one. The wording guide has full lines.
• Middle names: Sally, Orla, or Rex behind a more familiar first name.

The Baby Kit puts the chosen name and the gloss you would actually say on the announcements and the wall art, in one style.

Sources

• Meanings: our name database. Entries marked "Wiktionary" are adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each name page links its source, and our sources page explains the method. Debated origins are labeled on the name page and are not stated as fact here. A quoted theory is labeled as a theory.
• Popularity: U.S. Social Security Administration baby name data, 1940 to 2025. Ranks are within one sex. A 2015 rank is that year's rank for the same sex, stated where our stored count matches that file. Counts under five per sex per year are absent. The 2025 file is 1,708,076 boys and 1,607,267 girls (3,315,343). Group totals sum the eleven princess-note names, boys and girls together. "About 1 in" divides the file by the count in the sentence.
• Rhythm: Sadie is 2 syllables on our page, Amira is 3, and Rex is 1. The tester's surname estimator gives Sullivan 3, Brooks 1, and Miller 2.