Stavros
Stavros was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,576 among boys’ names; 1,036 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stavros by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Stavros mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Stavros is “a transliteration of the Greek male given name Σταύρος (Stávros).” Its etymology gives the sense “cross” (σταυρός).
From Greek Σταύρος (Stávros), from σταυρός (stavrós, “cross”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Stavros?
#5,576 among boys’ names, 2025
Stavros fell from #4,680 in 2015 to #5,576 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 10.0 per million.
35 babies in 2007, the peak
Stavros peaked in 2007, when 35 boys were given it, #3,239 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,576 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,622 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,426 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,824 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 19 | #5,079 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,401 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 19 | #5,124 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,282 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,490 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,757 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,680 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,955 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,773 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,946 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,876 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 19 | #5,011 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,705 | 14.6 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,725 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,239 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,832 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,304 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,571 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,611 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,430 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,642 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,349 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,676 | 10.9 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,119 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,432 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,913 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,668 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,889 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,347 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,068 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,789 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 21 | #3,042 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,591 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,412 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,526 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,417 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,809 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,935 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,777 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,293 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,260 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 10 | #4,091 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,330 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,370 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 25 | #2,002 | 15.2 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,403 | 12.1 |
| 1975 | 23 | #2,056 | 14.7 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,779 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,389 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,313 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,795 | 7.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,183 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,837 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,432 | 7.5 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,501 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Stavros a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stavros has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Stavros: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stavros, and how old are they?
An estimated 995 Americans named Stavros and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 14 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,353 people named Stavros (6 women and girls, 1,347 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 898 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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).
Where are babies named Stavros born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | #2,004 | 2.2× |
Where Stavros is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Stavros is most over-represented in New York: since 1966 it was given 2.2 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 Stavros with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Stavros
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 Stavros and names like it
- Compare Stavros and KarlosBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stavros since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Stavros.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Stavros alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.