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Stockton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,977 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,977 in 2001; #3,370 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Stockton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,370 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,977.
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Stockton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,977 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 62 (2020).
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Stockton, making it the 3,370th most common boys’ name of the year, down 274 places from #3,096 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 40 boys named Stockton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,977, reached in 2001. The most boys given the name in a single year was 62, in 2020. For comparison, it was #2,406 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Stockton in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 1,366 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 500 babies named Stockton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 468 US boys were named Stockton; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 62. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 35 | #3,370 |
| 2024 | — | — | 40 | #3,096 |
| 2023 | — | — | 42 | #2,996 |
| 2022 | — | — | 45 | #2,866 |
| 2021 | — | — | 53 | #2,519 |
| 2020 | — | — | 62 | #2,231 |
| 2019 | — | — | 47 | #2,730 |
| 2018 | — | — | 49 | #2,610 |
| 2017 | — | — | 35 | #3,303 |
| 2016 | — | — | 60 | #2,252 |
| 2015 | — | — | 54 | #2,406 |
| 2014 | — | — | 49 | #2,538 |
| 2013 | — | — | 57 | #2,273 |
| 2012 | — | — | 57 | #2,289 |
| 2011 | — | — | 45 | #2,696 |
| 2010 | — | — | 47 | #2,626 |
| 2009 | — | — | 44 | #2,793 |
| 2008 | — | — | 34 | #3,337 |
| 2007 | — | — | 34 | #3,300 |
| 2006 | — | — | 44 | #2,693 |
| 2005 | — | — | 39 | #2,799 |
| 2004 | — | — | 38 | #2,783 |
| 2003 | — | — | 35 | #2,840 |
| 2002 | — | — | 30 | #3,082 |
| 2001 | — | — | 55 | #1,977 |
| 2000 | — | — | 39 | #2,467 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,929 |
| 1998 | — | — | 40 | #2,268 |
| 1997 | — | — | 34 | #2,437 |
| 1996 | — | — | 23 | #3,188 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,475 |
| 1994 | — | — | 12 | #5,074 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,522 |
| 1992 | — | — | 15 | #4,078 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,439 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,884 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,724 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,504 |
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).