Standford
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Standford has been given to 25 babies in the U.S. since 1927. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1955, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Standford, 1955
1 in 401,000
Standford over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Standford?
Standford had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1955, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1955
- 1 in 401,000
- 10 of 4,014,099 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 206,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1955
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 278,237 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Standford sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1955 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 278,237 children born in 1955 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Standford. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Standfords were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Standford was born before 1954 — so the typical Standford is around 71 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 60.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 80.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 15
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 60.0% of all recorded uses (15).
Is Standford 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1955 (10)
- Years since peak
- 70
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 100.0% average annual change
Spellings of Standford
Standford is not the most common spelling — Sanford is, with 58.7% against Standford's 0.10%.
Standford around the world
Where Standford 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.
- South Australia1966–1966#536in 1966
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Standford by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Standford
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Standford
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.