Stone
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
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
By decade
| Decade | boys named Stone | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | |
| 1920s | 36 | |
| 1930s | 12 | |
| 1940s | 5 | |
| 1950s | 6 | |
| 1970s | 15 | |
| 1980s | 32 | |
| 1990s | 1,445 | |
| 2000s | 2,060 | |
| 2010s | 1,730 | |
| 2020s | 1,068 |
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.
- Takodapeak 1998
- Esaipeak 2024
- Maleekpeak 1997
- Derianpeak 1996
- Jordipeak 1999
- Yannipeak 1998
- Humzapeak 2001
- Tahjpeak 1998
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.