Stone
Stone was given to 258 boys in 2025, #916 among boys’ names; 6,831 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,670 Americans named Stone and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stone by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Stone mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Stone is “a male given name.”
From stone. Doublet of Steen and Stein.
/stoʊ̯n/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Stone?
#916 among boys’ names, 2025
Stone rose from #1,188 in 2015 to #916 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.08 to 0.15 per 1,000.
288 babies in 1999, the peak
Stone peaked in 1999, when 288 boys were given it, #626 among boys’ names. The 275 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 95% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 258 | #916 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 212 | #1,045 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 222 | #995 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 229 | #987 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 218 | #1,005 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 189 | #1,063 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 211 | #996 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 177 | #1,109 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 185 | #1,071 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 178 | #1,103 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 156 | #1,188 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 178 | #1,088 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 163 | #1,117 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 139 | #1,271 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 168 | #1,105 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 175 | #1,099 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 198 | #997 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 191 | #1,010 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 225 | #895 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 192 | #972 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 185 | #948 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 183 | #928 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 182 | #916 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 202 | #827 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 260 | #693 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 242 | #721 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 288 | #626 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 285 | #632 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 277 | #623 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 228 | #698 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 164 | #840 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 100 | #1,134 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 54 | #1,655 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,349 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 11 | #5,042 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,984 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,762 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,329 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,900 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,195 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,672 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,619 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,773 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,984 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,116 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,095 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,156 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,129 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,139 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,288 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,804 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,823 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,697 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Stone a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,831 Americans recorded as Stone, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 girls and 258 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Stone: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stone, and how old are they?
6,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,831 Americans ever recorded as Stone. The median Stone alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 5,336 people named Stone (160 women and girls, 5,176 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,337 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 605 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,700 |
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 Stone born?
The states with the most babies named Stone are Texas, Florida and California, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 26 | #950 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 21 | #751 | 1.0× |
| California | 20 | #1,076 | 0.7× |
| Utah | 16 | #314 | 1.6× |
| Arizona | 11 | #625 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 9 | #977 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #766 | 1.1× |
| Kentucky | 9 | #519 | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 8 | #673 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 8 | #767 | 0.7× |
Where Stone is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Stone is most over-represented in Utah: since 1919 it was given 1.6 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 Stone with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 10,366 babies since 1880, Stone is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 it was given to 275 of their 324 babies (85%), again the 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Stone
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 Stone and names like it
- Compare Stone and StoneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sStone peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stone since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Stone.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Stone alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.