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Just curious if the Tyranid Prime is considered a Special or named Character for the purposes of a tournament army composition.

In this excerpt (from the FAQ), it is not mentioned as a Special Character:

Q: Tyranid Special Characters. Are Tyranid Special Characters
considered to be special versions of the standard creatures of their type
for the purposes of using psychic powers, biomorphs and special rules?
For example, is the Swarmlord considered to be a Hive Tyrant for the
purposes of using Hive Tyrant psychic powers? Similarly, is
Deathleaper considered to be a Lictor for the purposes of Chameleonic
Skin and Pheromone Trail, is the Doom of Malan’tai considered to be a
Zoanthrope for the purposes of Warp Field, is Old One Eye considered
to be Carnifex for the purposes of Living Battering Ram and are
Ymgarl Genestealers considered to be Genestealers for the purposes of
Brood Telepathy? (p56-61)

A. Yes in all cases.

Also not sure if just because it is called a "Prime" make it a named character. Yes, it does have its own stat line, but does that make it either of the two types?

Think the warrior prime and Trygon prime are characters IIRC, check errata for BRB though I think they left them out by accident, they were actually meant to have lines clarifying that. (but everyone forgets Nids )

edit; Misunderstood the question, as below, they are not unique

A special/named character will always have the "unique" label. If it does not it is just a generic unit.

Yeah, check the Composition section for each unit at the back of the codex. The special/named characters all have '(Unique)' written there.

The tyranid prime is a character, but not a special character.