Stoney

#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
Given to boys 94.8% of the time

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Peak · boys
1963 · 259 births
Debut · boys
10 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,092
since 1922

Stoney over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201922peak #498, 1963girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#7,88513#3,24036
2024#5,96220#2,87344
2023#6,40918#3,71230
2022#5,98420#3,69130
2021#5,95520#4,62821
2020#13,4536#3,27434
2019#9,11211#3,57131
2018#7,40915#4,91819
2017#11,6158#6,68512
2016#16,2155#5,78915
2015#16,4195#7,49110
2014#5,73315
2013#4,98118
2012#14,9626#4,53321
2011#16,7645#6,25613
2010#5,04718
2009#4,42922
2008#15,4056#5,06718
2007#5,90114
2006#17,1685#4,37021
2005#3,94123
2004#7,5369
2003#4,27619
2002#3,67023
2001#2,98830
2000#4,20418
1999#3,10326
1998#2,45035
1997#3,26122
1996#3,02124
1995#2,44431
1994#2,30734
1993#2,39931
1992#2,17435
1991#1,98338
1990#2,01237
1989#2,10633
1988#11,7985#2,25527
1987#1,89633
1986#1,51144
1985#1,91630
1984#1,79631
1983#1,78731
1982#1,65436
1981#1,39646
1980#1,35748
1979#1,51039
1978#1,48739
1977#1,11361
1976#1,11158
1975#1,17052
1974#1,11554
1973#1,09355
1972#1,01463
1971#93376
1970#1,03162
1969#1,00858
1968#92062
1967#95557
1966#83576
1965#74998
1964#737109
1963#498259
1962#1,03854
1961#2,14815
1960#1,55227
1959#1,38732
1958#1,55725
1957#1,43630
1956#1,94517
1955#1,61123
1954#1,88717
1953#1,83618
1952#2,37611
1951#1,51924
1950#1,57222
1949#1,75418
1948#1,65620
1947#1,69620
1946#1,88415
1945#1,92613
1944#1,57419
1943#1,63619
1942#1,79916
1941#1,18731
1940#1,43322
1939#1,48920
1938#1,61318
1937#2,19711
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1926#3,7086
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1924#4,3475
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First appearance
1922

The first year at least five boys were named Stoney! It came in at #2,801, and was given to 10 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1923–1925, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Stoney
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 367 spots since 2024 (#2,873#3,240)
  • 34 spots since 2020 (#3,274#3,240)
  • 4,251 spots since 2015 (#7,491#3,240)
  • Biggest jump: 540 spots in 1963 (#1,038#498)
  • Biggest drop: 239 spots in 1964 (#498#737)
Rise & fade · boys
41 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1922
  • Peaked 1963 at #498 (259 births)
  • Births halved by 1964, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1963–1968
Share of babies · boys
1 in 7,842
  • Highest: 1 in 7,842 boys born in 1963 were named Stoney (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1960s
  • 26.4% of all boys named Stoney (815) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s21#2,801 (1922)#3,619
1930s49#1,489 (1939)#1,766
1940s193#1,187 (1941)#1,655
1950s219#1,387 (1959)#1,713
1960s815#498 (1963)#1,044
1970s559#933 (1971)#1,158
1980s359#1,357 (1980)#1,767
1990s313#1,983 (1991)#2,515
2000s197#2,988 (2001)#4,638
2010s172#3,571 (2019)#5,500
2020s195#2,873 (2024)#3,570

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Stoney in 1922

boys
#2,801
10 births · 1 in 108,815 boys

Top boys' names in 1922

  1. #1John57,280
  2. #2Robert53,796
  3. #3William51,111
  4. #4James49,802
  5. #5Charles28,839
  6. #6George27,350
  7. #7Joseph25,699
  8. #8Edward20,419
  9. #9Richard17,537
  10. #10Frank16,013
  11. #2,801Stoney10
More about 1922

boys

1,088,154 boys got a published name in 1922; 1 in 108,815 of them was named Stoney, which outranked 43.6% of the 4,967 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Stoney
  1. #2,630Zachary11
  2. #2,630Zebedee11
  3. #2,630Zeke11
  4. #2,801Stoney10
  5. #2,801Alanson10
  6. #2,801Alcee10
  7. #2,801Aldine10
  8. #3,014Abelino9
  9. #3,014Acel9
  10. #3,014Adin9

Tied with 212 names at #2,801; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1921
Risers
  1. 520Desmond#1,360#840
  2. 504Gorden#1,226#722
  3. 418Jackie#1,140#722
  4. 417Daryl#843#426
  5. 361Brown#1,360#999
Fallers
  1. 600Adolf#991#1,591
  2. 508Nello#962#1,470
  3. 439Newman#843#1,282
  4. 394Marcos#939#1,333
  5. 343Porfirio#939#1,282

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1922