Prynceton
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- PRINS-tun
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Prynceton is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “prince's town”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Prynceton mean?
English: spelling of Princeton
“prince's town”
A respelling of Princeton, the New Jersey town known for Princeton University, founded in 1746.
Is Prynceton a girl's or a boy's name?
Prynceton is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Prynceton in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Prynceton, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,976th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 2011.
Half of all the boys named Prynceton in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Prynceton in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,512 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,473 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,771 |
| 2020 | 14 | #5,976 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,766 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,593 |
Names like Prynceton
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Wesson, Colson, Hudson, Dutton, Stetson, Easton, Brixton, Paxton, Axton, Lawson, Jettson, Kingston
Names related to Prynceton
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Prynceton: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/prynceton, updated 20 October 2026.