Stuart

Where Stuart comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Stuart.

  • 2 syllables
Stuart through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #442 among boys, with 16 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1932
    Stuart Hall born
    Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist
  3. 1940
    Stuart Sutcliffe born
    Scottish painter and musician better known as the original bass guitarist of the English rock band the Beatles
  4. 1960
    Peak, #161
    2,074 babies named Stuart, the most in any year.
  5. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #228.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Stuart Sutcliffe · Scottish painter and musician better known as the original bass guitarist of the English rock band the Beatles, 1940–1962
  • Stuart Hall · Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist, 1932–2014
  • Stuart Pearce · English footballer and manager, born 1962
  • Stuart Roosa · American astronaut, 1933–1994
  • Stuart Whitman · American actor, 1928–2020

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.