Price
Masculine · “son of Rhys”
Price is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 3,926 boys against 96 girls since 1880.
Price is the Welsh ap Rhys — son of Rhys — and the ap contracted onto the name, which is how Welsh made most of its surnames.
How old is the name Price?
Price was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Price alive today was born around 1969, making them about 56 years old. About 2,300 people named Price are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Price most popular?
Price peaked in 1896, reaching #438 nationally. Today it ranks #2332, 1,894 places below that high. See the whole 1896 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ap Rhys to Price
The story of Price
Welsh patronymics used ap for 'son of', and when surnames fixed the particle fused onto the name — ap Rhys became Price, ap Hywel became Powell, ab Ieuan became Bevan. It is one of the tidiest surname patterns in Britain. Price entered American given-name use recently and is in current use.
Meaning
son of Rhys
From the Welsh ap Rhys, 'son of Rhys', with the ap fused to the following name. Rhys means 'ardor' or 'enthusiasm'. The same process gives Powell from ap Hywel and Bevan from ab Ieuan. The construction is documented.
How the name formed
- ap Rhys
- Price
Related forms: ap Rhys · Pryce
Pronouncing Price
PRYSS
One syllable. It is a homophone of the ordinary English noun.
Nicknames for Price
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most boys named
- 202559 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #438reached in 1896
- Change vs 2022
- +1.7%59 in 2025, from 58
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Price in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- ap Rhys in Welsh — related form
- Pryce in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, South Carolina.
Prices among us
people named Price are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 28,950 born in 2025 was named Price
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Price
- #2332
- Price on the 2025 chart
- #821
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Price went to 59 boys in 2025, but Pryce is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 107, which makes it the 821st most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,511 places above the chart.
- Price59
- Pryce48
About 1 boy in 15,963 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 28,950 for Price itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Price sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Price is headed
Price should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Price beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Price in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That ap fused onto names to make Price, Powell and Bevan is a first-rate fact.
- Rhys is available as a root name with a real record.
- One syllable, clean, and never mispronounced.
- It is a homophone of an ordinary English noun.
- It reads unmistakably as a surname.
- Pryce and Price are both in circulation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Prices are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Price are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Price?
- Price is the most-used spelling in US records — 59 of the 107 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Pryce.
- How popular is the name Price in 2025?
- Price ranks #2332 among US boy names in 2025, with 59 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Price?
- About 1 in every 28,950 US boys born in 2025 was named Price — 59 in all.
- Will my child share the name Price with classmates?
- Price will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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