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Title and rank given in the Iberian kingdoms of Spain and Portugal

Infante (iɱˈfante, ĩˈfɐ̃tɨ; f. infanta), also anglicised as "infant" or translated as "prince", is the title and rank given in the Iberian kingdoms of Spain (including the predecessor kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, Navarre, and León) and Portugal to the sons and daughters (infantas) of the king, regardless of age, sometimes with the exception of the heir apparent or heir presumptive to the throne who usually bears a unique princely or ducal title. A woman married to a male infante was accorded the title of infanta if the marriage was dynastically approved (e. g., Princess Alicia of Bourbon Parma), although since 1987 this is no longer automatically the case in Spain (e. g., Princess Anne d'Orléans). While the title belonged by right to all sons and daughters of a monarch (even when they ceased to be children of the reigning sovereign), it was also often accorded to sons in law and male line grandchildren of the sovereign (e. g., Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria, Infante Pedro Carlos of Spain and Portugal), sometimes to other agnates of the ruling dynasty (e. g., Infante Enrique, Duke of Seville), and to female line relatives of the monarch (e. g. Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, Infante Alfonso de Orléans Borbón).

Although the title is derived from the same root as "infant", in Romance languages the term may be more broadly interpreted to mean "child" (cf. French enfants de France), and historically indicated that the infante or infanta was the child of the nation's monarch. Like the enfants de France, all infantes in the various Iberian kingdoms were princes of the blood royal, although since 1987 the Spanish sovereign may also confer the title infantado by decree upon a person (typically the spouse of an infante or infanta) who is not of royal descent.