Meaning not yet researched.
Princeton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 422 in 2025. Its best rank was #402 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #402 in 2017; #653 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Princeton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#653 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #402.
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Princeton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 422 boys in 2025. Peak: #402 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 793 (2017).
In 2025, 422 US boys were named Princeton, making it the 653rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 39 places from #614 in 2024. That is 43 fewer than the 465 boys named Princeton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #402, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 793. For comparison, it was #431 in 2015 and #3,598 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Princeton in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 6 babies. In all, 10,256 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,461 babies named Princeton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,503 US boys were named Princeton; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 793. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,048 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Princeton ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #278 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Prynceton, Princetyn and Princetin are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Prynceton (137), Princetyn (97), Princetin (34), Princeten (21).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Princeton in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 12 | #278 | #149 |
| Georgia | 43 | #291 | #173 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #348 | #255 |
| Louisiana | 13 | #394 | #226 |
| Tennessee | 20 | #405 | #325 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #406 | #149 |
| Alabama | 13 | #417 | #186 |
| Ohio | 25 | #433 | #472 |
| Missouri | 13 | #484 | #458 |
| Michigan | 17 | #512 | #360 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #514 | — |
| Illinois | 16 | #596 | #536 |
| Florida | 29 | #597 | #384 |
| North Carolina | 15 | #634 | #323 |
| Kansas | 5 | #673 | #500 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #681 | #790 |
| Indiana | 9 | #702 | #618 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #736 | #693 |
| Virginia | 9 | #777 | #440 |
| Maryland | 6 | #784 | #517 |
| Texas | 34 | #801 | #463 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #871 | #497 |
| Arizona | 6 | #913 | #861 |
| New York | 14 | #943 | #527 |
| California | 24 | #952 | #599 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,114 | #827 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,145 | #474 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 422 | #653 |
| 2024 | — | — | 465 | #614 |
| 2023 | — | — | 533 | #549 |
| 2022 | — | — | 611 | #499 |
| 2021 | — | — | 626 | #478 |
| 2020 | — | — | 722 | #412 |
| 2019 | — | — | 768 | #405 |
| 2018 | — | — | 788 | #407 |
| 2017 | — | — | 793 | #402 |
| 2016 | — | — | 775 | #413 |
| 2015 | — | — | 714 | #431 |
| 2014 | — | — | 541 | #517 |
| 2013 | — | — | 389 | #637 |
| 2012 | — | — | 318 | #732 |
| 2011 | — | — | 202 | #978 |
| 2010 | — | — | 173 | #1,107 |
| 2009 | — | — | 136 | #1,296 |
| 2008 | — | — | 106 | #1,530 |
| 2007 | — | — | 85 | #1,758 |
| 2006 | — | — | 54 | #2,342 |
| 2005 | — | — | 31 | #3,301 |
| 2004 | — | — | 48 | #2,370 |
| 2003 | — | — | 36 | #2,768 |
| 2002 | — | — | 32 | #2,927 |
| 2001 | — | — | 20 | #4,080 |
| 2000 | — | — | 32 | #2,848 |
| 1999 | — | — | 31 | #2,776 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,166 |
| 1997 | — | — | 30 | #2,666 |
| 1996 | — | — | 17 | #3,977 |
| 1995 | — | — | 21 | #3,277 |
| 1994 | — | — | 36 | #2,249 |
| 1993 | — | — | 36 | #2,200 |
| 1992 | — | — | 44 | #1,874 |
| 1991 | — | — | 66 | #1,408 |
| 1990 | — | — | 64 | #1,406 |
| 1989 | — | — | 47 | #1,674 |
| 1988 | — | — | 55 | #1,415 |
| 1987 | — | — | 37 | #1,786 |
| 1986 | — | — | 45 | #1,504 |
| 1985 | — | — | 52 | #1,345 |
| 1984 | — | — | 35 | #1,679 |
| 1983 | — | — | 18 | #2,645 |
| 1982 | — | — | 23 | #2,253 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,563 |
| 1980 | — | — | 23 | #2,267 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,735 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,079 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,603 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,207 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,087 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,391 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,551 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,873 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,598 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,403 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,832 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,830 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,586 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,224 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,792 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,235 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,132 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,598 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).