Stone

Where Stone comes from

From stone. Doublet of Steen and Stein.
— Wiktionary's entry for Stone
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1919
    First appearance
    #3,391 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1940
    Stone Johnson born
    American sprinter and football player
  3. 1966
    Stone Gossard born
    American guitarist
  4. 1997
    Peak, #623
    277 babies named Stone — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Stone Gossard · American guitarist, born 1966
  • Stone Johnson · American sprinter and football player, 1940–1963
  • Stone Garrett · baseball player, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.