Stanly
Stanly was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 966 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stanly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Stanly?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,773, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1916, the peak
Stanly peaked in 1916, when 25 boys were given it, #1,412 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #13,773 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,865 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,785 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 10 | #8,048 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,990 | 3.1 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,875 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,736 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,499 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #13,082 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,961 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #12,064 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,886 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,412 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,733 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,750 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,512 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,621 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,165 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #7,065 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,982 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,163 | 5.5 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,162 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,944 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,671 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,381 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,900 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,420 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,312 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,659 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,284 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,711 | 6.3 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,463 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,758 | 5.6 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,759 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,394 | 6.5 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,517 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 15 | #2,179 | 7.3 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,524 | 5.6 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,107 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 22 | #1,754 | 10.3 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,162 | 7.1 |
| 1957 | 15 | #2,181 | 7.0 |
| 1956 | 22 | #1,713 | 10.4 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,036 | 7.8 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,817 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 22 | #1,669 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,066 | 7.7 |
| 1951 | 18 | #1,828 | 9.6 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,103 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,323 | 6.8 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,105 | 8.0 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,155 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,132 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,229 | 8.2 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,290 | 8.1 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,267 | 8.4 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,250 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,471 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,836 | 6.9 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,445 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,469 | 9.0 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,907 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,287 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,116 | 12.5 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,138 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,354 | 11.1 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,617 | 9.6 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,091 | 13.5 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,164 | 12.8 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,558 | 21.4 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,145 | 13.5 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,887 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,548 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,121 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,616 | 10.6 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,209 | 13.7 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,689 | 20.2 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,183 | 8.2 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,180 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 18 | #1,869 | 18.4 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,761 | 19.7 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,081 | 16.2 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,412 | 28.1 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,289 | 14.1 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,957 | 18.3 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,475 | 13.7 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,605 | 25.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Stanly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stanly has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Stanly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stanly, and how old are they?
An estimated 457 Americans named Stanly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 35 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 866 people named Stanly (9 women and girls, 857 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 519 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Stanly?
Stanly is a less common spelling of Stanley: SSA has recorded 966 Stanly and 302,862 Stanley since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 304,212 babies since 1880, Stanly is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 283 babies recorded by SSA was a Stanly (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Stanly
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 Stanly and names like it
- Compare Stanly and StanleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sStanly peaked in 1916.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stanly since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Stanly.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Stanly alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.