Given name & surname
Prima
“the firstborn child”
Prima is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “the firstborn child.”
Original LatinPrimus
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “the firstborn child.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
In Latin usage, Prima is a feminine form of PRIMUS.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1949. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Prima through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 107
- 0 boys · 107 girls
- Most popular year
- 1975
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 1975. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 578 as a first name in 2020; 167 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Prima’s family of names
In Latin usage, Prima is a feminine form of PRIMUS. Prima has a related form in Preama. Prima has a related form in Preema.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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