Stoney
Stoney is given to both girls and boys: 13 girls and 36 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,292 among girls’ names and #3,301 among boys’, #5,737 among all names counting both); 3,260 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,760 Americans named Stoney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 25 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stoney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Stoney?
#3,301 among boys’ names, 2025
Stoney rose from #7,958 in 2015 to #3,301 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 21.1 per million.
259 babies in 1963, the peak
Stoney peaked in 1963, when 259 boys were given it, #500 among boys’ names. The 49 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,301 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 44 | #2,905 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,788 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 30 | #3,758 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,758 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 34 | #3,334 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 31 | #3,622 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,074 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 12 | #7,041 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 15 | #6,012 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,958 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,956 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,141 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,653 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,528 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,215 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,569 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,218 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,216 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,489 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,038 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 9 | #8,063 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,392 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,764 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,048 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,350 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,168 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 35 | #2,496 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,328 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,088 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 31 | #2,486 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 34 | #2,332 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 31 | #2,442 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,204 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 38 | #2,005 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 37 | #2,037 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 33 | #2,136 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 27 | #2,294 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 33 | #1,928 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 44 | #1,531 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,965 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 31 | #1,836 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 31 | #1,811 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 36 | #1,672 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 46 | #1,410 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 48 | #1,374 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 39 | #1,529 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 39 | #1,504 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 61 | #1,120 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,178 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,123 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,106 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 63 | #1,023 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 76 | #939 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 62 | #1,041 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 58 | #1,016 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 62 | #929 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 57 | #964 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 76 | #842 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 98 | #750 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 109 | #740 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 259 | #500 | 0.13 |
| 1962 | 54 | #1,044 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,225 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 27 | #1,577 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 32 | #1,409 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 25 | #1,585 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 30 | #1,448 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,008 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 23 | #1,640 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 17 | #1,948 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,893 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,494 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 24 | #1,550 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 22 | #1,608 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 18 | #1,813 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 20 | #1,698 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 20 | #1,729 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,942 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,000 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,620 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 19 | #1,688 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 16 | #1,858 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,207 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,466 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,527 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,682 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,318 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,130 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,867 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,979 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Stoney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,260 Americans recorded as Stoney, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Stoney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stoney, and how old are they?
2,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 3,260 Americans ever recorded as Stoney. The median Stoney alive today is 47 years old; half are between 25 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 2,160 people named Stoney (142 women and girls, 2,018 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,608 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 53 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 550 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 840 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 518 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 348 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 453 |
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 Stoney born?
The states with the most babies named Stoney are Texas, North Carolina and Georgia, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 442 | #1,163 | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 95 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 68 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Oklahoma | 68 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 52 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 42 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| South Carolina | 32 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 27 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 27 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Stoney is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Stoney is most over-represented in Texas: since 1922 it was given 1.8 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 Stoney 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, Stoney is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 324 babies (15%), again the second 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 Stoney
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 Stoney and names like it
- Compare Stoney and StoneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sStoney peaked in 1963.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stoney since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Stoney.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Stoney alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.