Staton
Staton was given to 10 boys in 2025, #8,157 among boys’ names; 116 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Staton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Staton?
#8,157 among boys’ names, 2025
Staton rose from #11,886 in 2015 to #8,157 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 5.9 per million.
10 babies in 2021, the peak
Staton peaked in 2021, when 10 boys were given it, #8,076 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #8,157 | 5.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #8,076 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,776 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,587 | 3.9 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,886 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,786 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,736 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,369 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,334 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,735 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #10,048 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,513 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,288 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,318 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,053 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,983 | 2.7 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,920 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,863 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Staton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Staton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Staton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Staton, and how old are they?
An estimated 108 Americans named Staton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 8 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 234 people named Staton (24 women and girls, 210 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 85 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 8,651 babies since 1880, Staton is the second most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 44 babies (23%), again the second most given.
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.
More about Staton and names like it
- Compare Staton and StanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sStaton peaked in 2021.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Staton.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Staton alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.