Meaning not yet researched.
Stan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #386 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #386 in 1959; #10,534 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Stan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,534 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #386.
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Stan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #386 in 1959 · most boys in one year: 419 (1959).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Stan, making it the 10,534th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,641 places from #8,893 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 9 boys named Stan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #386, reached in 1959. That year also had the most boys given the name: 419. For comparison, it was #6,627 in 2015 and #562 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Stan in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 9 babies. In all, 8,480 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,368 babies named Stan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 96 US boys were named Stan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Stanley (302,862 babies since 1880), Stanford (7,727 babies since 1880) and Stanton (6,738 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Stanislav and Stann are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Stanislav (303), Stann (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Stan in the open dataset we use.
Stan is listed as a nickname for Stanley.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 7 | #10,534 |
| 2024 | — | — | 9 | #8,893 |
| 2023 | — | — | 6 | #12,056 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #12,121 |
| 2021 | — | — | 10 | #8,080 |
| 2020 | — | — | 10 | #7,977 |
| 2019 | — | — | 10 | #8,130 |
| 2018 | — | — | 12 | #7,071 |
| 2017 | — | — | 11 | #7,478 |
| 2016 | — | — | 15 | #6,016 |
| 2015 | — | — | 13 | #6,627 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #6,995 |
| 2013 | — | — | 9 | #8,672 |
| 2012 | — | — | 12 | #6,979 |
| 2011 | — | — | 5 | #14,062 |
| 2010 | — | — | 14 | #6,321 |
| 2009 | — | — | 6 | #12,277 |
| 2008 | — | — | 8 | #9,739 |
| 2007 | — | — | 5 | #14,104 |
| 2006 | — | — | 8 | #9,454 |
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #8,978 |
| 2004 | — | — | 11 | #6,916 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #6,201 |
| 2002 | — | — | 14 | #5,359 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,430 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #5,006 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,448 |
| 1998 | — | — | 19 | #3,825 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #6,028 |
| 1996 | — | — | 15 | #4,365 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,474 |
| 1994 | — | — | 17 | #3,885 |
| 1993 | — | — | 22 | #3,131 |
| 1992 | — | — | 13 | #4,540 |
| 1991 | — | — | 18 | #3,436 |
| 1990 | — | — | 29 | #2,427 |
| 1989 | — | — | 30 | #2,289 |
| 1988 | — | — | 30 | #2,134 |
| 1987 | — | — | 30 | #2,051 |
| 1986 | — | — | 32 | #1,915 |
| 1985 | — | — | 30 | #1,965 |
| 1984 | — | — | 29 | #1,927 |
| 1983 | — | — | 37 | #1,625 |
| 1982 | — | — | 35 | #1,698 |
| 1981 | — | — | 58 | #1,205 |
| 1980 | — | — | 42 | #1,491 |
| 1979 | — | — | 39 | #1,527 |
| 1978 | — | — | 34 | #1,647 |
| 1977 | — | — | 52 | #1,241 |
| 1976 | — | — | 49 | #1,263 |
| 1975 | — | — | 54 | #1,158 |
| 1974 | — | — | 53 | #1,133 |
| 1973 | — | — | 76 | #929 |
| 1972 | — | — | 73 | #950 |
| 1971 | — | — | 72 | #963 |
| 1970 | — | — | 99 | #817 |
| 1969 | — | — | 98 | #780 |
| 1968 | — | — | 121 | #688 |
| 1967 | — | — | 147 | #621 |
| 1966 | — | — | 166 | #585 |
| 1965 | — | — | 194 | #550 |
| 1964 | — | — | 249 | #500 |
| 1963 | — | — | 282 | #470 |
| 1962 | — | — | 309 | #454 |
| 1961 | — | — | 332 | #439 |
| 1960 | — | — | 406 | #392 |
| 1959 | — | — | 419 | #386 |
| 1958 | — | — | 403 | #391 |
| 1957 | — | — | 303 | #440 |
| 1956 | — | — | 247 | #483 |
| 1955 | — | — | 223 | #493 |
| 1954 | — | — | 186 | #533 |
| 1953 | — | — | 152 | #585 |
| 1952 | — | — | 145 | #579 |
| 1951 | — | — | 145 | #576 |
| 1950 | — | — | 145 | #562 |
| 1949 | — | — | 137 | #578 |
| 1948 | — | — | 212 | #458 |
| 1947 | — | — | 255 | #428 |
| 1946 | — | — | 205 | #444 |
| 1945 | — | — | 155 | #482 |
| 1944 | — | — | 167 | #470 |
| 1943 | — | — | 143 | #527 |
| 1942 | — | — | 142 | #514 |
| 1941 | — | — | 120 | #545 |
| 1940 | — | — | 81 | #675 |
| 1939 | — | — | 71 | #714 |
| 1938 | — | — | 81 | #671 |
| 1937 | — | — | 74 | #699 |
| 1936 | — | — | 65 | #754 |
| 1935 | — | — | 59 | #813 |
| 1934 | — | — | 56 | #842 |
| 1933 | — | — | 59 | #810 |
| 1932 | — | — | 42 | #1,034 |
| 1931 | — | — | 34 | #1,191 |
| 1930 | — | — | 32 | #1,276 |
| 1929 | — | — | 24 | #1,520 |
| 1928 | — | — | 21 | #1,698 |
| 1927 | — | — | 21 | #1,743 |
| 1926 | — | — | 20 | #1,781 |
| 1925 | — | — | 19 | #1,860 |
| 1924 | — | — | 17 | #2,038 |
| 1923 | — | — | 18 | #1,934 |
| 1922 | — | — | 17 | #2,028 |
| 1921 | — | — | 17 | #2,048 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,464 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,354 |
| 1918 | — | — | 14 | #2,251 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,927 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,712 |
| 1915 | — | — | 8 | #3,040 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,433 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).