Stirling — #5905 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Stirling

The Social Security Administration has registered 828 babies named Stirling between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Stirling currently holds the #5905 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Stirling is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 78 additional births since 1996.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Stirling performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 174 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Stirling shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Stirling in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Stirling in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 828 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.