Entry № 8309 · Welsh origin

Price Price — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PRYS /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Son of Rhys (Vincent Price; modern unisex)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "son of rhys (vincent price; modern unisex)".

Price is the Anglicized form of the Welsh ap Rhys (son of Rhys — meaning ardor or enthusiasm). Cecil Price — multiple American figures. Pricewaterhousecoopers (PwC) — major American accounting firm. The price of fame — English idiom. Price Mountain — Virginia. Reynolds Price — American novelist.

Son of Rhys.

The name in its native script.

Price
Transliteration
Price
Pronunciation
/ praɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Price stands.

Price does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Prices before her.

Real people
Vincent Price
American master of horror cinema.
1911 – 1993
Leontyne Price
American operatic soprano (19 Grammys).
born 1927
In fiction
Price
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Price.

The number behind Price.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Price reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.