Stoney

Where Stoney comes from

Stoney hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1922
    First appearance
    #2,801 among boys, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1953
    Stoney Burke born
    American musician and comedian
  3. 1960
    Stoney Jackson born
    American actor
  4. 1963
    Peak, #498
    259 babies named Stoney — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #737.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Stoney Burke · American musician and comedian, born 1953
  • Stoney Jackson · American actor, born 1960
  • Stoney Case · Player of American Football, born 1972

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.