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Stone

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Stone is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 210 births. Its best rank was 623rd, in 1997.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
2100.01% of boys
Peak year
1999288 births
Best rank
#623in 1997
Since 1919
6,554people given the name
Babies named Stone, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

6,416 boys have been named Stone in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 288 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2000s alone account for 32%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 138 girls have also been given it, 2.1% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Stone
1910s7
1920s36
1930s12
1940s5
1950s6
1970s15
1980s32
1990s1,445
2000s2,060
2010s1,730
2020s1,068

In 1999, its biggest year

Stone was the 627th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1999 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Nicholas. See all of 1999.

Names that rose and fell with Stone

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.