Stan
Stan was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,530 among boys’ names; 8,480 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,520 Americans named Stan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 58 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Stan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Stan is “a diminutive of the male given name Stanley.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Stanislav.”
Clipping of Stanley.
/stæn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Stan?
#10,530 among boys’ names, 2025
Stan fell from #6,622 in 2015 to #10,530 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 4.1 per million.
419 babies in 1959, the peak
Stan peaked in 1959, when 419 boys were given it, #386 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,530 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,888 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #12,051 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #12,115 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #8,075 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,972 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #8,125 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 12 | #7,067 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,474 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 15 | #6,011 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,622 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,990 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,667 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,973 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #14,054 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,315 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,272 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,732 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #14,098 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,448 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,971 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,910 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,194 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,352 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,423 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,999 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,442 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,821 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #6,022 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,359 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,468 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,879 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,125 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,533 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,430 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 29 | #2,422 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 30 | #2,283 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 30 | #2,129 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 30 | #2,047 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 32 | #1,913 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,964 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 29 | #1,926 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 37 | #1,624 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 35 | #1,697 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,205 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 42 | #1,491 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 39 | #1,527 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 34 | #1,647 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,241 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 49 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,158 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,133 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 76 | #929 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 73 | #950 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 72 | #963 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 99 | #817 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 98 | #780 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 121 | #688 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 147 | #621 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 166 | #585 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 194 | #550 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 249 | #500 | 0.12 |
| 1963 | 282 | #470 | 0.14 |
| 1962 | 309 | #454 | 0.15 |
| 1961 | 332 | #439 | 0.16 |
| 1960 | 406 | #392 | 0.19 |
| 1959 | 419 | #386 | 0.20 |
| 1958 | 403 | #391 | 0.19 |
| 1957 | 303 | #439 | 0.14 |
| 1956 | 247 | #482 | 0.12 |
| 1955 | 223 | #492 | 0.11 |
| 1954 | 186 | #532 | 0.09 |
| 1953 | 152 | #584 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 145 | #578 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 145 | #575 | 0.08 |
| 1950 | 145 | #561 | 0.08 |
| 1949 | 137 | #577 | 0.08 |
| 1948 | 212 | #458 | 0.12 |
| 1947 | 255 | #428 | 0.14 |
| 1946 | 205 | #444 | 0.13 |
| 1945 | 155 | #482 | 0.12 |
| 1944 | 167 | #470 | 0.12 |
| 1943 | 143 | #527 | 0.10 |
| 1942 | 142 | #514 | 0.10 |
| 1941 | 120 | #545 | 0.10 |
| 1940 | 81 | #675 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 71 | #714 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 81 | #671 | 0.07 |
| 1937 | 74 | #699 | 0.07 |
| 1936 | 65 | #754 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 59 | #813 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 56 | #842 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 59 | #810 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 42 | #1,034 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 34 | #1,191 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,276 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,520 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,698 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,743 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,781 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 19 | #1,859 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,038 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 18 | #1,933 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,027 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,047 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,463 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,353 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,926 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,711 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,039 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,432 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Stan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 112 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Stan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stan, and how old are they?
5,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 65% of the 8,480 Americans ever recorded as Stan. The median Stan alive today is 65 years old; half are between 58 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 15,386 people named Stan (65 women and girls, 15,321 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,175 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Stan rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 384 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,240 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,180 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 415 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 163 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 129 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Stan born?
The states with the most babies named Stan are California, Illinois and Texas, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,075 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 388 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 387 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 336 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 279 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Washington | 245 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Missouri | 229 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 211 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 193 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 179 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Stan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Stan is most over-represented in Utah: since 1914 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Stan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 8,651 babies since 1880, Stan is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 44 babies (16%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Stan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Stan and names like it
- Compare Stan and StatonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sStan peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stan since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Stan.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Stan alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.