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How popular is “Princeton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Princeton” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Princeton” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Princeton” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Princeton” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Princeton” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Princeton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Princeton” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1950 6 0.000001713 6 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 -100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 -100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 -100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1971 8 0.000002331 8 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1973 10 0.000003315 10 -100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1980 23 0.000006677 23 -100%
1981 12 0.000003469 12 -100%
1982 23 0.000006557 23 -100%
1983 18 0.000005197 18 -100%
1984 35 0.000010032 35 -100%
1985 52 0.000014569 52 -100%
1986 45 0.000012651 45 -100%
1987 37 0.000010262 37 -100%
1988 55 0.000014885 55 -100%
1989 47 0.000012225 47 -100%
1990 64 0.000016192 64 -100%
1991 66 0.000016944 66 -100%
1992 44 0.000011455 44 -100%
1993 36 0.000009548 36 -100%
1994 36 0.000009684 36 -100%
1995 21 0.000005734 21 -100%
1996 17 0.000004661 17 -100%
1997 30 0.000008274 30 -100%
1998 25 0.000006797 25 -100%
1999 31 0.000008392 31 -100%
2000 32 0.000008466 32 -100%
2001 20 0.000005343 20 -100%
2002 32 0.00000856 32 -100%
2003 36 0.000009468 36 -100%
2004 48 0.000012562 48 -100%
2005 31 0.000008063 31 -100%
2006 54 0.000013649 54 -100%
2007 85 0.000021262 85 -100%
2008 106 0.000026967 106 -100%
2009 136 0.0000356 136 -100%
2010 173 0.000046811 173 -100%
2011 202 0.000055225 202 -100%
2012 318 0.000086948 318 -100%
2013 389 0.000106702 389 -100%
2014 541 0.000145965 541 -100%
2015 714 0.000192925 714 -100%
2016 775 0.000211247 775 -100%
2017 793 0.000221744 793 -100%
2018 788 0.000224125 788 -100%
2019 768 0.000221266 768 -100%
2020 717 0.000214634 717 -100%
2021 626 0.000184773 626 -100%
2022 611 0.000180602 611 -100%
2023 533 0.000160969 533 -100%
2024 464 0.000139402 464 -100%

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