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Stone

#916 in 2025Boys' name

English word name: stone

Stone has been given to 6,831 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #916 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 288 recorded.

Babies named Stone, 2025

1 in 12,800

Stone over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stone: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: stone

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Stone means

Stone takes the English word stone into personal-name use.

Origin, language, and formation

Stone is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Steen and Stein.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Stone is pronounced /stoʊ̯n/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,676 boys were recorded with the name Stone between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 288 in 1999; its best national rank was #623 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,063 in 2020 to #916 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,188 in 2015 to #916 in 2025.

In the United States, 155 girls were recorded with the name Stone between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2021; its best national rank was #6,144 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,885 in 2020 to #6,795 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,326 in 2015 to #6,795 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 Stone?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,800
258 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,620
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#916
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,908 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stone 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,908 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stone. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stones were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stone was born before 2008 — so the typical Stone is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,616
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (2,060).

Is Stone 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
+129
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+147
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+272
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.65×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
89.6%
Peak was 1999 (288)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#623
1997

Spellings of Stone

Stone is not the most common spelling — Tony is, with 33.8% against Stone's 0.90%.

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 Stone is used

Across 2016–2025, Stone was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 3,226 boys, against 1 in 9,083 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

231 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 3,226
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 5,263
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 5,882
  4. 4Colorado1 in 6,667
  5. 5Virginia1 in 6,667
  6. 6Arizona1 in 7,143
  7. 7Georgia1 in 7,143
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 7,143

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.

Stone around the world

Where Stone 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
    1996–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • France
    1994–2025
    #5,712
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Stone

People whose public names include Stone, 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.

Stone by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#916
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 147
Best rank ever
#623
1997
Peak year
1999
288 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,676
Count in 2025
258

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,795
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 90
Best rank ever
#6,144
2021
Peak year
2021
20 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
155
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Stone

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

StormBooneStoneyAntoneSioneStormyRamoneAntioneKeoneDioneStoryStocktonAntwoneLeoneStokesRhoneStonyTyroneMaloneJeroneStoicDamoneRaymoneStokely

Names with a curve like Stone

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

TahjArmanJordiCanyonJordyDangeloEsaiDestinIsaiMisaelTraceImmanuel

Sibling names for Stone

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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