Stratford
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Stratford has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1924. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1924, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Stratford, 1924
1 in 476,000
Stratford 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Stratford?
Stratford had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1924, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1924
- 1 in 476,000
- 5 of 2,381,562 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 227,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1924
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 330,156 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Stratford sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1924 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 330,156 children born in 1924 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stratford. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Stratfords were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Stratford was born before 1924 — so the typical Stratford is around 101 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Stratford 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
- 0%
- Peak was 1924 (5)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Stratford
Stratford is not the most common spelling — Stanford is, with 73.0% against Stratford's 0.05%.
Stratford around the world
Where Stratford 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 Australia1986–1986#460in 1986
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Stratford by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Stratford
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Stratford
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.