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Prince was named after his father's most popular stage name, Prince Rogers, which his father used while performing with Prince's mother in a jazz group called the Prince Rogers Trio. [29] In 1991, Prince's father told A Current Affair that he named his son "Prince" because he wanted Prince "to do everything I wanted to do". [ 30 ]
From the very beginning, his name was Prince. The musician who died Thursday morning at age 57 went by several names throughout his career but Prince was his birth name.
The legendary singer was born with the name -- but he definitely earned his royal moniker with all of his hits. Prince: The story behind his name(s) Skip to main content
Prince is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The female equivalent is a princess. The English word derives, via the French word prince, from the Latin noun prīnceps, from primus (first) and caput (head), meaning "the first, foremost, the chief, most distinguished, noble ruler, prince". [1]
The etymology of the name is from the Anglo-Saxon name Prince which is from the Latin word princeps (“first one” or “leader”).. The name comes from its first bearer, who was a person who acted in a formal and regal manner, or who had won the title of prince in some sort of contest.
The music world has seen countless reinventions, rehabilitations, transformations and image overhauls, but there’s never been anything quite like Prince changing his name to an unpronounceable ...
A direct descendant of Chief Peguis, [3] Prince was born in Selkirk, Manitoba in 1986, and moved with his family to Peguis First Nation as a boy. [2] [4] Prince's father Edward was also a musician and preacher, who recorded a number of albums, and Prince travelled with his father playing gigs in northern Manitoba.
(Ironically, Mountbatten was not Philip's original surname either, as he was born Prince Philip of Greece, however, he adopted his maternal grandparents's last name—itself an English translation ...