Stoney
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
Given to boys 94.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1963 · 259 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,092since 1922
Stoney over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #7,885 | 13 | #3,240 | 36 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | #2,873 | 44 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #3,712 | 30 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 | #3,691 | 30 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 | #4,628 | 21 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #3,571 | 31 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | #4,918 | 19 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #5,789 | 15 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | — | #5,733 | 15 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,981 | 18 | |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #4,533 | 21 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | — | #5,047 | 18 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,429 | 22 | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #5,067 | 18 |
| 2007 | — | #5,901 | 14 | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #4,370 | 21 |
| 2005 | — | #3,941 | 23 | |
| 2004 | — | #7,536 | 9 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,276 | 19 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,670 | 23 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,988 | 30 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,204 | 18 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,103 | 26 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,450 | 35 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,261 | 22 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,021 | 24 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,444 | 31 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,307 | 34 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,399 | 31 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,174 | 35 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,983 | 38 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,012 | 37 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,106 | 33 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #2,255 | 27 |
| 1987 | — | #1,896 | 33 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,511 | 44 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,916 | 30 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,796 | 31 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,787 | 31 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,654 | 36 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,396 | 46 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,357 | 48 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,510 | 39 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,487 | 39 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,113 | 61 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,111 | 58 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,170 | 52 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,115 | 54 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,093 | 55 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,014 | 63 | |
| 1971 | — | #933 | 76 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,031 | 62 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,008 | 58 | |
| 1968 | — | #920 | 62 | |
| 1967 | — | #955 | 57 | |
| 1966 | — | #835 | 76 | |
| 1965 | — | #749 | 98 | |
| 1964 | — | #737 | 109 | |
| 1963 | — | #498 | 259 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,038 | 54 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,148 | 15 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,552 | 27 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,387 | 32 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,557 | 25 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,436 | 30 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,945 | 17 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,611 | 23 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,887 | 17 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,836 | 18 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,376 | 11 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,519 | 24 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,572 | 22 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,754 | 18 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,656 | 20 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,696 | 20 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,884 | 15 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,926 | 13 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,574 | 19 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,636 | 19 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,799 | 16 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,187 | 31 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,433 | 22 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,489 | 20 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,613 | 18 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,197 | 11 | |
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| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
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| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
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| 1922 | — | #2,801 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Stoney! It came in at #2,801, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1923–1925, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Stoney is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,196 · 1 in 24,663
Best ever in a state: #244 in Tennessee, 1963.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #1,196 | 5 | 1 in 24,663 |
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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 Stoney
- 367 spots since 2024 (#2,873 → #3,240)
- 34 spots since 2020 (#3,274 → #3,240)
- 4,251 spots since 2015 (#7,491 → #3,240)
- Biggest jump: 540 spots in 1963 (#1,038 → #498)
- Biggest drop: 239 spots in 1964 (#498 → #737)
- Debuted 1922
- Peaked 1963 at #498 (259 births)
- Births halved by 1964, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1963–1968
- Highest: 1 in 7,842 boys born in 1963 were named Stoney (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.4% of all boys named Stoney (815) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 21 | #2,801 (1922) | #3,619 |
| 1930s | 49 | #1,489 (1939) | #1,766 |
| 1940s | 193 | #1,187 (1941) | #1,655 |
| 1950s | 219 | #1,387 (1959) | #1,713 |
| 1960s | 815 | #498 (1963) | #1,044 |
| 1970s | 559 | #933 (1971) | #1,158 |
| 1980s | 359 | #1,357 (1980) | #1,767 |
| 1990s | 313 | #1,983 (1991) | #2,515 |
| 2000s | 197 | #2,988 (2001) | #4,638 |
| 2010s | 172 | #3,571 (2019) | #5,500 |
| 2020s | 195 | #2,873 (2024) | #3,570 |
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.
Stoney in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 44,142 of them was named Stoney, which outranked 78.6% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,487Roque40
- #1,487Tiffany40
- #1,487Yancy40
- #1,510Stoney39
- #1,510Ajay39
- #1,510Antuan39
- #1,510Buford39
- #1,532Addison38
- #1,532Anders38
- #1,532Anselmo38
Tied with 21 names at #1,510; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.