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Stockton

#3,369 in 2025Boys' name

Log; stump, tree trunk

Stockton has been given to 1,366 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #3,369 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 62 recorded.

Babies named Stockton, 2025

1 in 94,700

Stockton over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stockton: meaning, origin, and history

Log; stump, tree trunk

Old English

What Stockton means

Stockton means “log; stump, tree trunk”, associated with stocc.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old English stocc (“log; stump, tree trunk”) or stoc (“house, dwelling”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). By surface analysis, stock + -ton. Doublet of Stoughton.

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Origin, language, and formation

Stockton is used in English. Its origins include Old English.

Stockton comes through Old English stocc.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Stockton is pronounced /ˈstɑktən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,366 boys were recorded with the name Stockton between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 62 in 2020; its best national rank was #1,973 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,231 in 2020 to #3,369 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,405 in 2015 to #3,369 in 2025.

How common is Stockton?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 48,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,369
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stockton 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stockton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stocktons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stockton was born before 2012 — so the typical Stockton is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,351
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Choose a decade

2010s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (500).

Is Stockton 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
−274
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,138
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−964
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.5%
Peak was 2020 (62)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,973
2001

Spellings of Stockton

Stockton is the most-used spelling, taking 63.8% of the 2,140 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 Stockton is used

Across 1910–2025, Stockton was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 2,326 boys, against 1 in 20,669 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

043 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 2,326
  2. 2Idaho1 in 12,500
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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

Stockton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,369
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,138
Best rank ever
#1,973
2001
Peak year
2020
62 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,366
Count in 2025
35

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Sibling names for Stockton

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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