boys:
9.4k births since 1950
#1221 (73rd percentile)
overall:
9.4k births since 1950
#2783 (64th percentile)
The name Princeton is the #2,783 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,355 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 64.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,221 (73.4% percentile) for all time with 9,355 births since 1950.
Princeton first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (first recorded for boys in 1950). Birth data for Princeton is available in 62 out of the 74 years between 1950 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Princeton reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 58.4% percentile (ranked #382) with 399 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 405 births per million (ranked 58.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Princeton ranks #480 for boys (47.4% percentile) with 290 births per million, which is 71.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Princeton".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Princeton is pronounced as PRIHN-stuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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