Stockton
Stockton was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,369 among boys’ names; 1,366 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Stockton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stockton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Stockton mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Stockton is “a male given name from Old English.” Its etymology gives the senses “log; stump, tree trunk” (stocc) and “house, dwelling” (stoc) and “enclosure; settlement, town” (tūn).
From Old English stocc (“log; stump, tree trunk”) or stoc (“house, dwelling”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). By surface analysis, stock + -ton. Doublet of Stoughton.
/ˈstɑktən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Stockton?
#3,369 among boys’ names, 2025
Stockton fell from #2,405 in 2015 to #3,369 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 28.2 to 20.5 per million.
62 babies in 2020, the peak
Stockton peaked in 2020, when 62 boys were given it, #2,231 among boys’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,369 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,095 | 23.2 |
| 2023 | 42 | #2,995 | 24.6 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,864 | 25.8 |
| 2021 | 53 | #2,518 | 30.3 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,231 | 35.9 |
| 2019 | 47 | #2,729 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 49 | #2,609 | 27.0 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,301 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,252 | 31.6 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #2,405 | 28.2 |
| 2014 | 49 | #2,536 | 25.5 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,272 | 30.1 |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,288 | 30.0 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,695 | 23.7 |
| 2010 | 47 | #2,625 | 24.5 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,792 | 22.2 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,335 | 16.7 |
| 2007 | 34 | #3,298 | 16.4 |
| 2006 | 44 | #2,692 | 21.4 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,795 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 38 | #2,779 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,836 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,078 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 55 | #1,973 | 28.3 |
| 2000 | 39 | #2,463 | 19.9 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,925 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 40 | #2,265 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,434 | 18.0 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,183 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,469 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 12 | #5,068 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,516 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,071 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,432 | 4.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,883 | 4.3 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,722 | 5.1 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,503 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Stockton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stockton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Stockton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stockton, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,366 Americans ever recorded as Stockton. The median Stockton alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,086 people named Stockton (11 women and girls, 1,075 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,080 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 76 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 634 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 623 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Stockton born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 13 | #374 | 33.6× |
Where Stockton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Stockton is most over-represented in Utah: since 1917 it was given 33.6 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 Stockton 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 Stockton
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 Stockton and names like it
- Compare Stockton and MoussaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sStockton peaked in 2020.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stockton since 1910.
- Old English namesWiktionary’s origin for Stockton: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Stockton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Stockton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.