The name Princeton developed from the name of the town or the university in New Jersey. The town is believed to have been named for William of Orange, stadtholder of the Dutch Republic and king of England in the late 17th century.
Princeton is a first name for boys.
The name Princeton isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Princeton ranks 438. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Princeton. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Princeton.
The name Princeton developed from the name of the town or the university in New Jersey. The town is believed to have been named for William of Orange, stadtholder of the Dutch Republic and king of England in the late 17th century.
Princeton has been ... given as a first name for a long time, but it is very rare and has only become a little more common since the 2010s.
Princeton is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Princeton cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #386 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2017. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Princeton, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Princeton seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Princeton was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
607 babies were named Princeton in 2022 - that's 1 in 265,941 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Princeton ranked 472 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Princeton, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 36 states are home to men and boys named Princeton. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Princeton living in one state or another. If your name is Princeton and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Georgia, which has the most people named Princeton relative to the population, you still have to ask 5,910 men and boys their names before you hear Princeton as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But P is by no means the rarest initial. While X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D.
With nine letters, the name Princeton is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with a P, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a P, Paul is currently the most common.
If your name is Princeton and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Princeton, you can simply say:
Pig
Rocket
Igloo
Nut
Cat
Elephant
Tiger
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Princeton sounds like this:
