Sutton
Sutton is a unisex name: 1,697 girls and 1,018 boys were given it in 2025 (#181 among girls’ names and #332 among boys’, #233 among all names counting both); 20,017 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Sutton every year since 2012.
An estimated 19,800 Americans named Sutton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 9.
Sutton is among the most evenly shared names of 2025: #15 of 43 unisex names by how close its split is to half and half.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sutton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sutton mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sutton is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “south” (suþ) and “town” (tun).
From Old English suþ (“south”) + tun (“town”). Doublet of Southtown.
/ˈsʌtən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sutton?
#181 among girls’ names, 2025
Sutton rose from #676 in 2015 to #181 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.24 to 1.1 per 1,000.
2,715 babies in 2025, the peak
Sutton peaked in 2025, when 2,715 babies were given it (1,697 girls, #181 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 1,561 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,697 | #181 | 1,018 | #332 |
| 2024 | 1,561 | #198 | 714 | #442 |
| 2023 | 1,460 | #205 | 698 | #446 |
| 2022 | 1,370 | #217 | 567 | #527 |
| 2021 | 1,249 | #245 | 544 | #542 |
| 2020 | 960 | #323 | 479 | #580 |
| 2019 | 755 | #417 | 420 | #641 |
| 2018 | 582 | #539 | 292 | #785 |
| 2017 | 500 | #605 | 279 | #814 |
| 2016 | 434 | #674 | 246 | #890 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 423 | #676 | 217 | #954 |
| 2014 | 361 | #778 | 206 | #1,003 |
| 2013 | 316 | #836 | 184 | #1,046 |
| 2012 | 243 | #1,040 | 161 | #1,143 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,508 | 125 | #1,357 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,250 | 120 | #1,397 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,294 | 120 | #1,412 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,525 | 145 | #1,222 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,839 | 118 | #1,399 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,461 | 68 | #1,989 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,715 | 69 | #1,861 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,076 | 54 | #2,184 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,223 | 61 | #1,926 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,966 | 36 | #2,672 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,817 | 31 | #2,976 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,672 | 41 | #2,365 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,552 | 42 | #2,223 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,675 | 33 | #2,590 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,593 | 31 | #2,600 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,348 | 21 | #3,381 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,405 | 23 | #3,081 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,707 | 31 | #2,488 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,217 | 18 | #3,632 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,996 | 12 | #4,815 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,929 | 16 | #3,790 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,248 | 14 | #4,140 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 7 | #6,837 | |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,139 | 13 | #3,879 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,698 | 12 | #3,926 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,589 | 9 | #4,791 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,226 | 15 | #3,199 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,951 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #6,121 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 8 | #4,882 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,790 | |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,130 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,440 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,294 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,968 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,478 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,173 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,069 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,849 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 5 | #4,726 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 5 | #4,505 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 5 | #3,700 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 7 | #2,242 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Sutton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 20,017 Americans recorded as Sutton, 63% are girls and 37% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sutton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sutton, and how old are they?
19,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 20,017 Americans ever recorded as Sutton. The median Sutton alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 7,619 people named Sutton (4,369 women and girls, 3,250 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,973 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 28 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 51 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 298 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 17,400 |
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 Sutton born?
The states with the most babies named Sutton are Texas, Ohio and Tennessee, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 268 | #182 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 149 | #102 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 133 | #108 | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 115 | #146 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 111 | #146 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 102 | #155 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 93 | #139 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 93 | #341 | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 92 | #119 | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 87 | #133 | 0.9× |
Where Sutton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sutton is most over-represented in South Dakota: since 1912 it was given 2.8 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 girls’ 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 Sutton 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 20,445 babies since 1880, Sutton is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,715 of their 2,774 babies (98%), 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 Sutton
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 Sutton and names like it
- Compare Sutton and SuttynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSutton peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sutton since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Sutton: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Sutton.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sutton alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.