Meaning not yet researched.
Sutton: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,697 in 2025. Its best rank was #181 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 63% of babies named Sutton in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#181 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Sutton: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,697 girls in 2025. Peak: #181 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,697 (2025).
In 2025, 1,697 US girls were named Sutton, making it the 181st most common girls’ name of the year, up 17 places from #198 in 2024. That is 136 more than the 1,561 girls named Sutton in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #181, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,697. For comparison, it was #676 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 1,018 US boys were named Sutton, making it the 332nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 110 places from #442 in 2024. That is 304 more than the 714 boys named Sutton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #332, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,018. For comparison, it was #954 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sutton in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 7 babies. In all, 20,017 US babies have been given the name, 63% of them girls and 37% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 12,317 babies named Sutton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,568 US girls were named Sutton; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,697. In 2025 that was about 1 in 947 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sutton ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #42 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 11 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Suttyn and Sutten are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Suttyn (370), Sutten (58).
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 Sutton in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 18 | #42 | #128 |
| Arkansas | 37 | #69 | #265 |
| Oklahoma | 45 | #70 | #265 |
| South Carolina | 48 | #86 | #507 |
| Nebraska | 24 | #86 | — |
| Kansas | 34 | #87 | #332 |
| Kentucky | 47 | #87 | #310 |
| North Dakota | 11 | #88 | — |
| Alabama | 47 | #90 | #605 |
| West Virginia | 17 | #92 | — |
| Iowa | 32 | #95 | #687 |
| Ohio | 97 | #102 | #509 |
| Louisiana | 38 | #104 | #347 |
| Mississippi | 22 | #105 | — |
| Tennessee | 67 | #108 | #666 |
| Missouri | 49 | #119 | #418 |
| Indiana | 52 | #126 | #472 |
| Virginia | 57 | #133 | #1,207 |
| Minnesota | 40 | #137 | #661 |
| New Hampshire | 10 | #138 | — |
| Michigan | 61 | #139 | #716 |
| Montana | 8 | #140 | — |
| Georgia | 67 | #146 | #554 |
| North Carolina | 70 | #146 | #562 |
| Pennsylvania | 72 | #155 | #709 |
| Wisconsin | 32 | #172 | #674 |
| Texas | 183 | #182 | #645 |
| Idaho | 12 | #191 | — |
| Illinois | 50 | #202 | #1,052 |
| Colorado | 30 | #208 | #760 |
| Utah | 22 | #220 | #708 |
| Oregon | 17 | #221 | #791 |
| Delaware | 5 | #223 | — |
| Maryland | 23 | #233 | #770 |
| Washington | 29 | #254 | #641 |
| Arizona | 24 | #305 | #1,230 |
| Florida | 54 | #341 | #1,345 |
| Massachusetts | 16 | #374 | — |
| Connecticut | 8 | #388 | — |
| New Jersey | 16 | #495 | — |
| New York | 31 | #546 | #1,599 |
| California | 55 | #589 | #1,328 |
| Nevada | 5 | #595 | #641 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,697 | #181 | 1,018 | #332 |
| 2024 | 1,561 | #198 | 714 | #442 |
| 2023 | 1,460 | #205 | 698 | #446 |
| 2022 | 1,370 | #217 | 567 | #527 |
| 2021 | 1,249 | #245 | 544 | #542 |
| 2020 | 960 | #323 | 479 | #580 |
| 2019 | 755 | #417 | 420 | #641 |
| 2018 | 582 | #539 | 292 | #785 |
| 2017 | 500 | #605 | 279 | #814 |
| 2016 | 434 | #674 | 246 | #890 |
| 2015 | 423 | #676 | 217 | #954 |
| 2014 | 361 | #778 | 206 | #1,003 |
| 2013 | 316 | #836 | 184 | #1,046 |
| 2012 | 243 | #1,040 | 161 | #1,143 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,509 | 125 | #1,357 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,251 | 120 | #1,397 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,295 | 120 | #1,412 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,526 | 145 | #1,222 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,840 | 118 | #1,399 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,462 | 68 | #1,990 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,719 | 69 | #1,865 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,080 | 54 | #2,188 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,227 | 61 | #1,930 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,970 | 36 | #2,676 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,822 | 31 | #2,981 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,677 | 41 | #2,369 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,557 | 42 | #2,226 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,680 | 33 | #2,593 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,597 | 31 | #2,604 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,353 | 21 | #3,387 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,410 | 23 | #3,086 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,713 | 31 | #2,493 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,223 | 18 | #3,638 |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,003 | 12 | #4,822 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,936 | 16 | #3,797 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,254 | 14 | #4,146 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,844 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,144 | 13 | #3,884 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,703 | 12 | #3,931 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,594 | 9 | #4,795 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,229 | 15 | #3,202 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,956 | — | — |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #6,125 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,884 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,792 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,132 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,442 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,295 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,969 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,479 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,174 | — | — |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,070 | — | — |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,728 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,506 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,701 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,243 |
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).