Stone
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · #915 for boys in 2025, 258 births
Given to boys 97.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1997 · 277 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,676since 1919
Stone over time
Rank among boys' names. Stone has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | #915 | 258 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #1,045 | 212 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | #992 | 222 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 | #982 | 229 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 | #1,003 | 218 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 | #1,058 | 189 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #995 | 211 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #1,107 | 177 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | #1,066 | 185 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #1,102 | 178 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #1,185 | 156 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #1,082 | 178 |
| 2013 | — | #1,115 | 163 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #1,266 | 139 |
| 2011 | — | #1,101 | 168 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,098 | 175 | |
| 2009 | — | #997 | 198 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,009 | 191 | |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #892 | 225 |
| 2006 | — | #971 | 192 | |
| 2005 | — | #945 | 185 | |
| 2004 | — | #925 | 183 | |
| 2003 | — | #913 | 182 | |
| 2002 | — | #826 | 202 | |
| 2001 | — | #692 | 260 | |
| 2000 | — | #718 | 242 | |
| 1999 | — | #627 | 288 | |
| 1998 | — | #632 | 285 | |
| 1997 | — | #623 | 277 | |
| 1996 | — | #699 | 228 | |
| 1995 | — | #842 | 164 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,135 | 100 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,638 | 54 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,303 | 32 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,760 | 11 | |
| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,527 | 11 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,751 | 7 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,573 | 9 | |
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| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
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| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
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| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
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| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
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| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
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| 1919 | — | #3,391 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Stone! It came in at #3,391, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1921, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Stone is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#813 · 1 in 5,987
- Virginia#846 · 1 in 6,970
- Arizona#859 · 1 in 7,398
- Ohio#938 · 1 in 8,537
- Georgia#959 · 1 in 7,716
Best ever in a state: #173 in Hawaii, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #813 | 6 | 1 in 5,987 |
| Virginia | #846 | 6 | 1 in 6,970 |
| Arizona | #859 | 5 | 1 in 7,398 |
| Ohio | #938 | 7 | 1 in 8,537 |
| Georgia | #959 | 7 | 1 in 7,716 |
| Florida | #1,013 | 10 | 1 in 9,196 |
| Texas | #1,067 | 17 | 1 in 10,450 |
| North Carolina | #1,084 | 5 | 1 in 10,111 |
| New York | #1,800 | 5 | 1 in 20,861 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Stone
- 130 spots since 2024 (#1,045 → #915)
- 143 spots since 2020 (#1,058 → #915)
- 270 spots since 2015 (#1,185 → #915)
- Biggest jump: 293 spots in 1995 (#1,135 → #842)
- Biggest drop: 134 spots in 2002 (#692 → #826)
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 1997 at #623 (277 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1995–2007
- Highest: 1 in 6,620 boys born in 2025 were named Stone (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #623 in 1997, was only 1 in 6,806 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.9% of all boys named Stone (2,060) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 7 | #3,391 (1919) | #3,391 |
| 1920s | 36 | #3,532 (1922) | #3,811 |
| 1930s | 12 | #2,854 (1936) | #3,248 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,560 (1942) | #3,560 |
| 1950s | 6 | #3,452 (1954) | #3,452 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 15 | #3,370 (1971) | #4,215 |
| 1980s | 32 | #4,527 (1989) | #5,292 |
| 1990s | 1,445 | #623 (1997) | #2,044 |
| 2000s | 2,060 | #692 (2001) | #889 |
| 2010s | 1,730 | #995 (2019) | #1,112 |
| 2020s | 1,328 | #915 (2025) | #999 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Stone in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 352,211 of them was named Stone, which outranked 13.6% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,665 names at #16,869; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 13,647 of them was named Stone, which outranked 91.1% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,258Shamar140
- #1,258Syed140
- #1,258Westley140
- #1,266Stone139
- #1,266Austen139
- #1,266Bodie139
- #1,266Dakari139
- #1,273Aayden138
- #1,273Ansh138
- #1,273Clifford138
Tied with 6 names at #1,266; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.