Highest ever

Stetson

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#136
2,662 boys
2015
#775
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Stetson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,662 in 2025. Its best rank was #136 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99% of babies named Stetson in 2025 were boys.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#136 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
2,699
Since 1880
15,725
Years on record
46

Babies named Stetson, every year since 1880

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Boys

Stetson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,662 boys in 2025. Peak: #136 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 2,662 (2025).

About the name Stetson

In 2025, 2,662 US boys were named Stetson, making it the 136th most common boys’ name of the year, up 19 places from #155 in 2024. That is 325 more than the 2,337 boys named Stetson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #136, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,662. For comparison, it was #775 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Stetson in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1930 with 5 babies. In all, 15,725 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 10,056 babies named Stetson.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,672 US boys were named Stetson; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,662. In 2025 that was about 1 in 642 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Stetson ranked highest in Wyoming in 2025, at #15 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 20 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Stetsyn, Stetsen and Stettson are summarised on this page.

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

No related spellings pass our data threshold.

Rare spellings summarised here: Stetsyn (132), Stetsen (74), Stettson (7).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Stetson in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Stetson by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 9 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Wyoming15#15—
Oklahoma117#16#248
North Dakota30#16—
South Dakota29#20—
Arkansas74#23#424
Mississippi60#23#614
Alabama110#29—
Idaho44#41#218
Tennessee151#43—
West Virginia31#47—
Montana22#48#233
Kentucky79#54#679
Missouri104#54#404
Iowa49#64#504
Kansas51#65#661
Georgia149#69#1,085
Utah66#69#256
Louisiana63#69#572
Nebraska32#76#346
Oregon42#90—
Colorado67#101#627
Texas346#116#458
New Mexico17#120—
South Carolina44#126—
North Carolina99#127—
Indiana65#129—
Arizona53#170#518
Washington51#171—
Wisconsin37#172—
Florida124#181#865
Nevada17#185—
Minnesota36#185—
Ohio68#191—
Hawaii6#210—
Virginia42#215—
Maine6#231—
Michigan40#258—
Illinois43#262—
Pennsylvania40#289—
California104#343#1,849
Maryland10#510—
New York12#1,045—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202537#3,9682,662#136
202421#5,9372,337#155
202322#5,7231,990#183
202218#6,6841,465#238
202112#8,920879#371
20206#14,897607#487
2019——517#545
2018——468#586
20175#18,130402#645
2016——345#710
2015——306#775
2014——272#833
2013——212#942
2012——165#1,119
2011——152#1,172
2010——145#1,227
2009——126#1,366
2008——121#1,406
2007——98#1,605
2006——94#1,572
2005——94#1,524
2004——73#1,746
2003——80#1,589
2002——88#1,457
2001——76#1,587
2000——105#1,257
1999——107#1,201
1998——109#1,158
1997——122#1,050
1996——123#1,018
1995——152#891
1994——168#820
1993——159#839
1992——130#943
1991——124#960
1990——102#1,054
1989——108#982
1988——83#1,097
1987——64#1,216
1986——56#1,318
1985——34#1,787
1984——29#1,928
1983——22#2,332
1982——20#2,508
1980——8#4,879
1930——5#4,482

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).