Meaning not yet researched.
Stoney: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #500 in 1963.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #500 in 1963; #3,302 in 2025. About 73% of babies named Stoney in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,302 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1963, at #500.
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Stoney: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #500 in 1963 · most boys in one year: 259 (1963).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Stoney, making it the 3,302nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 397 places from #2,905 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 44 boys named Stoney in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #500, reached in 1963. That year also had the most boys given the name: 259. For comparison, it was #7,963 in 2015 and #1,609 in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Stoney, making it the 8,294th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,160 places from #6,134 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 20 girls named Stoney in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6,134, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 20. For comparison, it was #18,787 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Stoney in 92 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1922 with 10 babies. In all, 3,260 US babies have been given the name, 5.2% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 815 babies named Stoney.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 272 US boys were named Stoney; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Stony, Stoni and Stonie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Stony (275), Stoni (58), Stonie (53).
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 Stoney 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 | 13 | #8,294 | 36 | #3,302 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,134 | 44 | #2,905 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,646 | 30 | #3,791 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,191 | 30 | #3,760 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,149 | 21 | #4,762 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,900 | 34 | #3,336 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,666 | 31 | #3,625 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,719 | 19 | #5,078 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,604 | 12 | #7,045 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,553 | 15 | #6,017 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,787 | 10 | #7,963 |
| 2014 | — | — | 15 | #5,960 |
| 2013 | — | — | 18 | #5,145 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,610 | 21 | #4,657 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,232 | 13 | #6,534 |
| 2010 | — | — | 18 | #5,218 |
| 2009 | — | — | 22 | #4,571 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,240 | 18 | #5,223 |
| 2007 | — | — | 14 | #6,219 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,698 | 21 | #4,493 |
| 2005 | — | — | 23 | #4,042 |
| 2004 | — | — | 9 | #8,069 |
| 2003 | — | — | 19 | #4,397 |
| 2002 | — | — | 23 | #3,769 |
| 2001 | — | — | 30 | #3,053 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,357 |
| 1999 | — | — | 26 | #3,172 |
| 1998 | — | — | 35 | #2,499 |
| 1997 | — | — | 22 | #3,333 |
| 1996 | — | — | 24 | #3,093 |
| 1995 | — | — | 31 | #2,491 |
| 1994 | — | — | 34 | #2,337 |
| 1993 | — | — | 31 | #2,448 |
| 1992 | — | — | 35 | #2,209 |
| 1991 | — | — | 38 | #2,011 |
| 1990 | — | — | 37 | #2,042 |
| 1989 | — | — | 33 | #2,142 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,620 | 27 | #2,299 |
| 1987 | — | — | 33 | #1,932 |
| 1986 | — | — | 44 | #1,532 |
| 1985 | — | — | 30 | #1,966 |
| 1984 | — | — | 31 | #1,837 |
| 1983 | — | — | 31 | #1,812 |
| 1982 | — | — | 36 | #1,673 |
| 1981 | — | — | 46 | #1,410 |
| 1980 | — | — | 48 | #1,374 |
| 1979 | — | — | 39 | #1,529 |
| 1978 | — | — | 39 | #1,504 |
| 1977 | — | — | 61 | #1,120 |
| 1976 | — | — | 58 | #1,121 |
| 1975 | — | — | 52 | #1,178 |
| 1974 | — | — | 54 | #1,123 |
| 1973 | — | — | 55 | #1,106 |
| 1972 | — | — | 63 | #1,023 |
| 1971 | — | — | 76 | #939 |
| 1970 | — | — | 62 | #1,041 |
| 1969 | — | — | 58 | #1,016 |
| 1968 | — | — | 62 | #929 |
| 1967 | — | — | 57 | #964 |
| 1966 | — | — | 76 | #842 |
| 1965 | — | — | 98 | #750 |
| 1964 | — | — | 109 | #740 |
| 1963 | — | — | 259 | #500 |
| 1962 | — | — | 54 | #1,045 |
| 1961 | — | — | 15 | #2,226 |
| 1960 | — | — | 27 | #1,578 |
| 1959 | — | — | 32 | #1,410 |
| 1958 | — | — | 25 | #1,586 |
| 1957 | — | — | 30 | #1,449 |
| 1956 | — | — | 17 | #2,009 |
| 1955 | — | — | 23 | #1,641 |
| 1954 | — | — | 17 | #1,949 |
| 1953 | — | — | 18 | #1,894 |
| 1952 | — | — | 11 | #2,495 |
| 1951 | — | — | 24 | #1,551 |
| 1950 | — | — | 22 | #1,609 |
| 1949 | — | — | 18 | #1,814 |
| 1948 | — | — | 20 | #1,699 |
| 1947 | — | — | 20 | #1,730 |
| 1946 | — | — | 15 | #1,943 |
| 1945 | — | — | 13 | #2,001 |
| 1944 | — | — | 19 | #1,621 |
| 1943 | — | — | 19 | #1,689 |
| 1942 | — | — | 16 | #1,858 |
| 1941 | — | — | 31 | #1,207 |
| 1940 | — | — | 22 | #1,466 |
| 1939 | — | — | 20 | #1,527 |
| 1938 | — | — | 18 | #1,682 |
| 1937 | — | — | 11 | #2,318 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,132 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,869 |
| 1922 | — | — | 10 | #2,980 |
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).