Stoney — #2875 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Stoney

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,056 babies named Stoney between 1922 and 2024, spanning 103 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Stoney currently holds the #2875 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1963, when 259 babies received it in a single year. Stoney is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 155 additional births since 1988.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Stoney performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 815 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Stoney shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 405 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Stoney in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Stoney 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 3,056 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.