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Stetson

#136 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly site in the Parish of South Brent

Stetson has been given to 15,725 babies in the U.S. since 1930. In 2025 it ranked #136 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 2,662 recorded.

Babies named Stetson, 2025

1 in 1,250

Stetson over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stetson: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly site in the Parish of South Brent

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Stetson means

Stetson may mean “site in the Parish of South Brent”, associated with Stidston.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A variant of Stitson, a habitational name from Stidston (“site in the Parish of South Brent”), from Middle English Stidewardesdoune, Stidewardeston, Stitewardeston, Styddeston, from Old English *Stīthweardes (genitive of *Stīthweard (personal name)) + tūn (“farmstead estate”). * (hat): From Stetson, an American brand of hat named after its manufacturer, John B. Stetson Company, itself named after John B. Stetson, who founded it in 1865. The hats were widely known in the 1870s and 1880s. Sol Steinmetz stated in 2010 that Stetson hat was first attested in 1900, but this is clearly mistaken, being several decades too late; it may be that what Steinmetz had meant to write is that Stetson alone as a common noun meaning a Stetson hat was first attested in 1900.

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Origin, language, and formation

Stetson is used in English.

Stetson comes through Middle English Stidewardesdoune and Old English *Stīthweardes.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stitson.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15,604 boys were recorded with the name Stetson between 1930 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 2,662 in 2025; its best national rank was #136 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #487 in 2020 to #136 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #775 in 2015 to #136 in 2025.

In the United States, 121 girls were recorded with the name Stetson between 2017 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,967 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,892 in 2020 to #3,967 in 2025.

How common is Stetson?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 1,250
2,662 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 642
0.16% of boys
Rank, 2025
#136
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
864 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stetson 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 202%
Class of 302%
Grade of 1008%
School of 50033%

Put another way: gather 864 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stetson. In a class of 30 the chance is 2%.

When Stetsons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stetson was born before 2022 — so the typical Stetson is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
63.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15,599
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 63.7% of all recorded uses (9,940).

Is Stetson 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
+19
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+351
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+639
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
8.70×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (2,662)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#136
2025

Spellings of Stetson

Stetson is the most-used spelling, taking 54.6% of the 28,598 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Stetson is used

Across 2016–2025, Stetson was most concentrated in Wyoming — about 1 in 195 boys, against 1 in 1,250 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 20,000).

5513 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wyoming1 in 195
  2. 2Montana1 in 236
  3. 3North Dakota1 in 304
  4. 4South Dakota1 in 315
  5. 5Idaho1 in 353
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 361
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 372
  8. 8Alabama1 in 518

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.

Geographically, Stetson is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 91% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Stetson around the world

Where Stetson 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.

  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #407
    in 2024

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Stetson

People whose public names include Stetson, 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.

Stetson by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#136
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 351
Best rank ever
#136
2025
Peak year
2025
2,662 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
15,604
Count in 2025
2,662

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,967
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 10,925
Best rank ever
#3,967
2025
Peak year
2025
37 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
121
Count in 2025
37

Names similar to Stetson

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

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Names with a curve like Stetson

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

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Sibling names for Stetson

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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