Fun Facts About the Name Stone
- More than 6 thousand babies named Stone: U.S. records list 6,829 babies given the name Stone from 1880 through 2025. Even 155 girls received the name Stone - about 1 girl for every 43 boys.
What Does the Name Stone Mean?
Stone is an English name taken from the Old English noun stān, "stone, rock." It belongs to the group of English surnames that arose from the landscape or from a trade rather than from a personal name. Used topographically, it identified someone who lived by a prominent stone, boulder, or rocky outcrop. Used occupationally, it could refer to a worker in stone, such as a mason or quarryman. It could also serve as a nickname for a person thought to be hard or unyielding, though that sense is difficult to prove in any individual family. The same word also lies behind several English place names, and residence at a place called Stone is a further, closely related source of the surname.
Stone Name History & Origins
The Old English stān comes from a Germanic root shared by Old Norse steinn and modern German Stein. In medieval England, descriptive bynames of this kind gradually became fixed, hereditary surnames between roughly the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, and the various senses of stān all fed into the same surname. Villages named Stone in several English counties, and the town of Staines, whose name goes back to an Old English plural meaning "stones" and referred to a Roman milestone, show how common the word was in place naming; a man who moved away from such a place could carry its name with him. As a first name, Stone is a transferred use of the surname, appearing occasionally in the English-speaking world, particularly in the United States, where surname-derived given names are common.
How Popular is the Name Stone?
Stone recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 1999. Its best rank was #623 in 1997.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #6,796 | 17 | 0.0011% |
| 2024 | #9,449 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2023 | #8,423 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2022 | #6,182 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2021 | #6,141 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2020 | #6,884 | 17 | 0.0011% |
| 2019 | #15,335 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2018 | #12,351 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2017 | #10,605 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2016 | #11,676 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2015 | #14,325 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2014 | #16,278 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #19,203 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2007 | #17,358 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #916 | 258 | 0.0151% |
| 2024 | #1,048 | 210 | 0.0122% |
| 2023 | #995 | 222 | 0.0130% |
| 2022 | #986 | 229 | 0.0131% |
| 2021 | #1,005 | 218 | 0.0125% |
| 2020 | #1,063 | 189 | 0.0110% |
| 2019 | #995 | 211 | 0.0118% |
| 2018 | #1,109 | 177 | 0.0097% |
| 2017 | #1,071 | 185 | 0.0100% |
| 2016 | #1,103 | 178 | 0.0094% |
| 2015 | #1,188 | 156 | 0.0081% |
| 2014 | #1,088 | 178 | 0.0093% |
| 2013 | #1,117 | 163 | 0.0086% |
| 2012 | #1,271 | 139 | 0.0073% |
| 2011 | #1,105 | 168 | 0.0088% |
| 2010 | #1,099 | 175 | 0.0091% |
| 2009 | #997 | 198 | 0.0100% |
| 2008 | #1,010 | 191 | 0.0094% |
| 2007 | #894 | 225 | 0.0108% |
| 2006 | #972 | 192 | 0.0093% |
| 2005 | #949 | 185 | 0.0093% |
| 2004 | #929 | 183 | 0.0092% |
| 2003 | #917 | 182 | 0.0092% |
| 2002 | #828 | 202 | 0.0104% |
| 2001 | #694 | 260 | 0.0134% |
| 2000 | #722 | 242 | 0.0123% |
| 1999 | #627 | 288 | 0.0150% |
| 1998 | #632 | 285 | 0.0149% |
| 1997 | #623 | 277 | 0.0147% |
| 1996 | #699 | 228 | 0.0120% |
| 1995 | #843 | 164 | 0.0086% |
| 1994 | #1,138 | 100 | 0.0052% |
| 1993 | #1,660 | 54 | 0.0028% |
| 1992 | #2,354 | 32 | 0.0016% |
| 1991 | #5,049 | 11 | 0.0005% |
| 1990 | #7,990 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1989 | #4,768 | 11 | 0.0005% |
| 1988 | #6,336 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1987 | #4,906 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1984 | #7,197 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1978 | #5,675 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1971 | #3,621 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1954 | #3,775 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1942 | #3,985 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1936 | #3,117 | 7 | 0.0007% |
| 1933 | #4,097 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1927 | #4,158 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1926 | #4,131 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1925 | #4,141 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1924 | #4,290 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1923 | #4,807 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1922 | #3,825 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1919 | #3,698 | 7 | 0.0007% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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