Stockton — #3050 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Stockton

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,331 babies named Stockton between 1917 and 2024, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Stockton currently holds the #3050 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 62 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Stockton performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 500 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Stockton shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 629 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Idaho and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Stockton in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Stockton 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 1,331 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.