Boys' name · since 1989
Staten
Staten has 55 recorded births since 1989 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #21,582 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #4,011 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 55
- born since 1989
- 2020s
- peak decade
Staten currently ranks #4011 among boys' names in America, with 55 babies recorded since 1989.
Staten has 55 recorded births among boys since 1989, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #4011 as of the latest data, more common than 71% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1989 to 2025.
- #21,582 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #4,011 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 55 born since 1989
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Staten ranks #21,582 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #4,011 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 55 born since 1989, peaking in the 2020s.
- #21,582 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #4,011 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 55
- born since 1989
- 2020s
- peak decade
Staten's 55 recorded births place it above 52.5% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Staten compares
55 18th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Staten's all-time total is 85% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Staten | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 55 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 27 | 34 | 22,252 |
Staten's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Staten's full recorded timeline at 2018, 67% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 33% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1989, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 27 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Staten popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1989–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 27
- Annual births at peak, across 37 years of records
Staten by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (32 births, 58% of the file).
2020s was Staten's strongest decade.
32 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Staten births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
- 2010s
2010s
13 births
- 2020s
2020s
32 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 32 births (58% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1989–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Staten draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.