Stoney
Stoney is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 44 births. Its best rank was 500th, in 1963.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 440.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1963259 births
- Best rank
- #500in 1963
- Since 1922
- 3,211people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,056 boys have been named Stoney in the United States since 1922, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1963, with 259 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1973, and the 1960s alone account for 27%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 155 girls have also been given it, 4.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Stoney | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 21 | |
| 1930s | 49 | |
| 1940s | 193 | |
| 1950s | 219 | |
| 1960s | 815 | |
| 1970s | 559 | |
| 1980s | 359 | |
| 1990s | 313 | |
| 2000s | 197 | |
| 2010s | 172 | |
| 2020s | 159 |
In 1963, its biggest year
Stoney was the 500th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1963 were Michael, John, David, James and Robert. See all of 1963.
Names that rose and fell with Stoney
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Richiepeak 1964
- Chetpeak 1963
- Dwaynepeak 1961
- Joeypeak 1962
- Pernellpeak 1964
- Robbypeak 1964
- Dewaynepeak 1962
- Kipppeak 1964
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.