Meaning not yet researched.
Stanton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #647 in 1949.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #647 in 1949; #3,836 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Stanton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,836 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1949, at #647.
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Stanton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 boys in 2025. Peak: #647 in 1949 · most boys in one year: 115 (1954).
In 2025, 29 US boys were named Stanton, making it the 3,836th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,025 places from #4,861 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 21 boys named Stanton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #647, reached in 1949. The most boys given the name in a single year was 115, in 1954. For comparison, it was #3,865 in 2015 and #671 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Stanton in 135 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 6,738 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 980 babies named Stanton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 300 US boys were named Stanton; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 58,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Stan (8,480 babies since 1880).
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.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Stanton in the open dataset we use.
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 | — | — | 29 | #3,836 |
| 2024 | — | — | 21 | #4,861 |
| 2023 | — | — | 27 | #4,100 |
| 2022 | — | — | 36 | #3,328 |
| 2021 | — | — | 26 | #4,107 |
| 2020 | — | — | 22 | #4,521 |
| 2019 | — | — | 35 | #3,335 |
| 2018 | — | — | 29 | #3,780 |
| 2017 | — | — | 32 | #3,510 |
| 2016 | — | — | 43 | #2,830 |
| 2015 | — | — | 28 | #3,865 |
| 2014 | — | — | 34 | #3,291 |
| 2013 | — | — | 29 | #3,649 |
| 2012 | — | — | 33 | #3,356 |
| 2011 | — | — | 27 | #3,877 |
| 2010 | — | — | 19 | #5,013 |
| 2009 | — | — | 25 | #4,145 |
| 2008 | — | — | 35 | #3,272 |
| 2007 | — | — | 21 | #4,618 |
| 2006 | — | — | 26 | #3,871 |
| 2005 | — | — | 22 | #4,168 |
| 2004 | — | — | 30 | #3,274 |
| 2003 | — | — | 25 | #3,615 |
| 2002 | — | — | 22 | #3,896 |
| 2001 | — | — | 36 | #2,674 |
| 2000 | — | — | 37 | #2,571 |
| 1999 | — | — | 40 | #2,297 |
| 1998 | — | — | 35 | #2,498 |
| 1997 | — | — | 50 | #1,880 |
| 1996 | — | — | 41 | #2,108 |
| 1995 | — | — | 58 | #1,599 |
| 1994 | — | — | 58 | #1,605 |
| 1993 | — | — | 48 | #1,789 |
| 1992 | — | — | 78 | #1,286 |
| 1991 | — | — | 61 | #1,465 |
| 1990 | — | — | 53 | #1,582 |
| 1989 | — | — | 57 | #1,472 |
| 1988 | — | — | 54 | #1,446 |
| 1987 | — | — | 54 | #1,377 |
| 1986 | — | — | 58 | #1,282 |
| 1985 | — | — | 53 | #1,330 |
| 1984 | — | — | 51 | #1,317 |
| 1983 | — | — | 54 | #1,264 |
| 1982 | — | — | 48 | #1,381 |
| 1981 | — | — | 43 | #1,475 |
| 1980 | — | — | 29 | #1,958 |
| 1979 | — | — | 39 | #1,528 |
| 1978 | — | — | 53 | #1,238 |
| 1977 | — | — | 33 | #1,664 |
| 1976 | — | — | 32 | #1,673 |
| 1975 | — | — | 44 | #1,320 |
| 1974 | — | — | 38 | #1,406 |
| 1973 | — | — | 58 | #1,073 |
| 1972 | — | — | 53 | #1,128 |
| 1971 | — | — | 64 | #1,025 |
| 1970 | — | — | 62 | #1,040 |
| 1969 | — | — | 74 | #892 |
| 1968 | — | — | 66 | #892 |
| 1967 | — | — | 65 | #898 |
| 1966 | — | — | 46 | #1,098 |
| 1965 | — | — | 66 | #918 |
| 1964 | — | — | 64 | #957 |
| 1963 | — | — | 88 | #812 |
| 1962 | — | — | 78 | #861 |
| 1961 | — | — | 76 | #881 |
| 1960 | — | — | 81 | #840 |
| 1959 | — | — | 78 | #869 |
| 1958 | — | — | 84 | #823 |
| 1957 | — | — | 95 | #774 |
| 1956 | — | — | 89 | #791 |
| 1955 | — | — | 96 | #752 |
| 1954 | — | — | 115 | #674 |
| 1953 | — | — | 99 | #721 |
| 1952 | — | — | 109 | #667 |
| 1951 | — | — | 107 | #676 |
| 1950 | — | — | 108 | #671 |
| 1949 | — | — | 112 | #647 |
| 1948 | — | — | 80 | #758 |
| 1947 | — | — | 104 | #681 |
| 1946 | — | — | 86 | #703 |
| 1945 | — | — | 71 | #732 |
| 1944 | — | — | 61 | #808 |
| 1943 | — | — | 60 | #867 |
| 1942 | — | — | 73 | #753 |
| 1941 | — | — | 68 | #757 |
| 1940 | — | — | 71 | #728 |
| 1939 | — | — | 58 | #803 |
| 1938 | — | — | 66 | #755 |
| 1937 | — | — | 63 | #778 |
| 1936 | — | — | 63 | #773 |
| 1935 | — | — | 61 | #796 |
| 1934 | — | — | 60 | #807 |
| 1933 | — | — | 72 | #718 |
| 1932 | — | — | 76 | #718 |
| 1931 | — | — | 68 | #755 |
| 1930 | — | — | 56 | #890 |
| 1929 | — | — | 76 | #720 |
| 1928 | — | — | 72 | #766 |
| 1927 | — | — | 94 | #657 |
| 1926 | — | — | 76 | #736 |
| 1925 | — | — | 77 | #754 |
| 1924 | — | — | 91 | #685 |
| 1923 | — | — | 70 | #801 |
| 1922 | — | — | 65 | #853 |
| 1921 | — | — | 69 | #832 |
| 1920 | — | — | 91 | #673 |
| 1919 | — | — | 69 | #781 |
| 1918 | — | — | 72 | #771 |
| 1917 | — | — | 69 | #759 |
| 1916 | — | — | 51 | #887 |
| 1915 | — | — | 58 | #803 |
| 1914 | — | — | 54 | #710 |
| 1913 | — | — | 43 | #706 |
| 1912 | — | — | 25 | #911 |
| 1911 | — | — | 13 | #970 |
| 1910 | — | — | 13 | #921 |
| 1909 | — | — | 8 | #1,145 |
| 1908 | — | — | 10 | #941 |
| 1907 | — | — | 11 | #858 |
| 1906 | — | — | 6 | #1,234 |
| 1904 | — | — | 6 | #1,187 |
| 1901 | — | — | 8 | #849 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,187 |
| 1898 | — | — | 6 | #1,106 |
| 1897 | — | — | 6 | #1,046 |
| 1893 | — | — | 8 | #825 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,236 |
| 1891 | — | — | 8 | #758 |
| 1890 | — | — | 9 | #732 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #1,097 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #1,019 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,106 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #1,078 |
| 1881 | — | — | 6 | #852 |
| 1880 | — | — | 6 | #899 |
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).