Staten
#4,028 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Staten has been given to 55 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #4,028 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 27 recorded.
Babies named Staten, 2025
1 in 123,000
Staten 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Staten?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 123,000
- 27 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 63,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,028
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 85,108 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Staten sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Staten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Statens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Staten was born before 2022 — so the typical Staten is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 58.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 55
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 58.2% of all recorded uses (32).
Is Staten 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (27)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Staten
Staten is not the most common spelling — Steven is, with 95.1% against Staten's <0.01%.
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.
Staten around the world
Where Staten 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 Australia1985–1985#449in 1985
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Staten by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Staten
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Staten
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.