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Stanton

#3,835 in 2025Boys' name

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

Stanton has been given to 6,738 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,835 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1954, with 115 recorded.

Babies named Stanton, 2025

1 in 114,000

Stanton over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stanton: meaning, origin, and history

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

surname transfer

What Stanton means

Stanton is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Stanton is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Stanton is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Stanton is pronounced /ˈstæntən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,738 boys were recorded with the name Stanton between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 115 in 1954; its best national rank was #646 in 1949.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,517 in 2020 to #3,835 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,864 in 2015 to #3,835 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 Stanton?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 58,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,835
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stanton 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stanton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stantons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stanton was born before 1955 — so the typical Stanton is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
14.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,932
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 14.5% of all recorded uses (980).

Is Stanton 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
+1,022
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+682
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+29
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.04×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.2%
Peak was 1954 (115)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#646
1949

Spellings of Stanton

Stanton is not the most common spelling — Shannon is, with 45.7% against Stanton's 5.9%.

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 Stanton is used

Across 1910–2025, Stanton was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 69,629 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Hawaii1 in 50,000
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 50,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 50,000
  8. 8Vermont1 in 50,000

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. Stanton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Stanton around the world

Where Stanton 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
    2000–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1945–1966
    #536
    in 1966

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Stanton

People whose public names include Stanton, 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.

Stanton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,835
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 682
Best rank ever
#646
1949
Peak year
1954
115 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,738
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Stanton

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

StanfordStatonBrittonKashtonStaceyHamptonStaffordBrixtonTristonSheltonStavrosQuentonTreytonKeltonHiltonHamiltonKlaytonBrentonColetonLangstonSuttonCashtonWaltonNewton

Names with a curve like Stanton

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

ArtisStanfordIvoryFritzFeltonDeltonWilliamsLorinFranklynNapoleonMargaritoRegis

Sibling names for Stanton

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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