"Traditional English name"
The name Empress is commonly a female name from the "English" origin.
Empress is the English word for a woman who rules an empire. It comes through Old French emperesse from Latin imperatrix, the feminine form of imperator, meaning commander. Its use as a given name in the United States is recent: it first appears in birth registration data in 1986, which fits a vocabulary word taken up as a name rather than an inherited given name.
The pronunciation of Empress is EM-priss.
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