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Stan

#10,530 in 2025Boys' name

Stone + meadow, through Stanley

Stan has been given to 8,480 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #10,530 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1959, with 419 recorded.

Babies named Stan, 2025

1 in 474,000

Stan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stan: meaning, origin, and history

Stone + meadow, through Stanley

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Stan means

Stan belongs to the name family reached through Stan → Stanley. Its meaning is “stone + meadow”.

Origin, language, and formation

Stan is used in English and Romanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stanley and Stanislav.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Stan is pronounced /stæn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,480 boys were recorded with the name Stan between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 419 in 1959; its best national rank was #386 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,972 in 2020 to #10,530 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,622 in 2015 to #10,530 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Stan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,530
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stan was born before 1958 — so the typical Stan is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
27.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
6,050
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Choose a decade

1950s — 27.9% of all recorded uses (2,368).

Is Stan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,642
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,558
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,908
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.54×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.7%
Peak was 1959 (419)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#386
1959

Spellings of Stan

Stan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 20.6% against Stan's 0.18%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Stan is used

Across 1910–2025, Stan was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 30,352 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 11,111
  2. 2Utah1 in 11,111
  3. 3Washington1 in 11,111
  4. 4Kansas1 in 12,500
  5. 5California1 in 16,667
  6. 6Missouri1 in 16,667
  7. 7Illinois1 in 20,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Stan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Stan around the world

Where Stan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    2011–2019
    #701
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    1979–2016
    #713
    in 2016
  • France
    1969–2025
    #756
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1950–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Stan

People whose public names include Stan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Stan in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Stan. Linked forms have their own page here.

StanleyStanislavStanko

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Stan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,530
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,558
Best rank ever
#386
1959
Peak year
1959
419 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,480
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Stan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Stan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Stan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Stan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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