Fun Facts About the Name Stoney
- More than 3 thousand babies named Stoney: U.S. records list 3,260 babies given the name Stoney from 1880 through 2025. Even 168 girls received the name Stoney - about 1 girl for every 18 boys.
What Does the Name Stoney Mean?
Stoney is an English name built on the Old English word stān, meaning "stone." It is chiefly a spelling variant of the topographic surname Stone, formed with the familiar English suffix -y (also written -ey or -ie). Topographic surnames described where a person lived rather than who their father was, so Stone and Stoney originally identified someone who lived on stony ground, beside a large rock or boundary stone, or at a settlement named for a stone. The literal sense is "stony" or "of the stone," the same root that produced the English adjective stony, from Old English stānig. Later symbolic readings of rocky-ground names as signifying firmness or endurance are interpretations, not part of the etymology.
Stoney Name History & Origins
Surnames of this kind became hereditary in England during the Middle Ages, and names drawn from local landscape features were among the most common. Stone is recorded widely as an English surname, and Stoney appears as a variant spelling of it, alongside habitational names taken from places called Stone, such as the town in Staffordshire. The added -y ending was a frequent way of extending or softening an existing surname, and it also gives the form a look identical to the everyday adjective stony.
As a first name, Stoney is used mainly in the United States and is almost entirely a masculine name, adopted from the surname rather than from the adjective. Its use as a given name is largely a twentieth-century development; the actor Stoney Jackson, born in 1960, is among its better-known bearers.
The word also has a separate and unrelated use as an English name for the Nakoda (Assiniboine) peoples of western Canada and the northern Plains, a label that comes from their use of heated stones in cooking and sweat lodges. That usage describes a group of people and is not the source of the personal name.
How Popular is the Name Stoney?
Stoney recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 1963. Its best rank was #500 in 1963.
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 | #8,294 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2024 | #6,110 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2023 | #6,639 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2022 | #6,183 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2021 | #6,142 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2020 | #14,896 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2019 | #9,661 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2018 | #7,715 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2017 | #12,597 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2016 | #18,547 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2015 | #18,785 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #16,607 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #19,230 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2008 | #17,237 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2006 | #19,696 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1988 | #13,619 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,302 | 36 | 0.0021% |
| 2024 | #2,900 | 44 | 0.0026% |
| 2023 | #3,782 | 30 | 0.0018% |
| 2022 | #3,759 | 30 | 0.0017% |
| 2021 | #4,760 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2020 | #3,335 | 34 | 0.0020% |
| 2019 | #3,624 | 31 | 0.0017% |
| 2018 | #5,077 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2017 | #7,043 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2016 | #6,016 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2015 | #7,962 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2014 | #5,959 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2013 | #5,145 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2012 | #4,657 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 2011 | #6,534 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2010 | #5,217 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 2009 | #4,571 | 22 | 0.0011% |
| 2008 | #5,223 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 2007 | #6,217 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2006 | #4,490 | 21 | 0.0010% |
| 2005 | #4,042 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2004 | #8,067 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2003 | #4,397 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2002 | #3,768 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2001 | #3,053 | 30 | 0.0015% |
| 2000 | #4,357 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 1999 | #3,172 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 1998 | #2,499 | 35 | 0.0018% |
| 1997 | #3,333 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 1996 | #3,093 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 1995 | #2,491 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 1994 | #2,337 | 34 | 0.0018% |
| 1993 | #2,448 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 1992 | #2,209 | 35 | 0.0018% |
| 1991 | #2,010 | 38 | 0.0019% |
| 1990 | #2,043 | 37 | 0.0018% |
| 1989 | #2,143 | 33 | 0.0016% |
| 1988 | #2,299 | 27 | 0.0014% |
| 1987 | #1,932 | 33 | 0.0018% |
| 1986 | #1,532 | 44 | 0.0024% |
| 1985 | #1,966 | 30 | 0.0016% |
| 1984 | #1,837 | 31 | 0.0017% |
| 1983 | #1,813 | 31 | 0.0017% |
| 1982 | #1,673 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 1981 | #1,410 | 46 | 0.0026% |
| 1980 | #1,374 | 48 | 0.0027% |
| 1979 | #1,531 | 39 | 0.0023% |
| 1978 | #1,504 | 39 | 0.0024% |
| 1977 | #1,120 | 61 | 0.0037% |
| 1976 | #1,121 | 58 | 0.0037% |
| 1975 | #1,178 | 52 | 0.0033% |
| 1974 | #1,123 | 54 | 0.0034% |
| 1973 | #1,106 | 55 | 0.0035% |
| 1972 | #1,023 | 63 | 0.0039% |
| 1971 | #939 | 76 | 0.0043% |
| 1970 | #1,041 | 62 | 0.0033% |
| 1969 | #1,016 | 58 | 0.0032% |
| 1968 | #929 | 62 | 0.0036% |
| 1967 | #964 | 57 | 0.0033% |
| 1966 | #842 | 76 | 0.0043% |
| 1965 | #750 | 98 | 0.0053% |
| 1964 | #740 | 109 | 0.0055% |
| 1963 | #500 | 259 | 0.0128% |
| 1962 | #1,045 | 54 | 0.0026% |
| 1961 | #2,224 | 15 | 0.0007% |
| 1960 | #1,577 | 27 | 0.0013% |
| 1959 | #1,410 | 32 | 0.0015% |
| 1958 | #1,586 | 25 | 0.0012% |
| 1957 | #1,450 | 30 | 0.0014% |
| 1956 | #2,009 | 17 | 0.0008% |
| 1955 | #1,641 | 23 | 0.0011% |
| 1954 | #1,950 | 17 | 0.0008% |
| 1953 | #1,894 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 1952 | #2,495 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1951 | #1,551 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 1950 | #1,609 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 1949 | #1,814 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1948 | #1,699 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 1947 | #1,730 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 1946 | #1,943 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 1945 | #2,001 | 13 | 0.0010% |
| 1944 | #1,621 | 19 | 0.0014% |
| 1943 | #1,689 | 19 | 0.0013% |
| 1942 | #1,858 | 16 | 0.0012% |
| 1941 | #1,207 | 31 | 0.0025% |
| 1940 | #1,466 | 22 | 0.0019% |
| 1939 | #1,527 | 20 | 0.0018% |
| 1938 | #1,682 | 18 | 0.0016% |
| 1937 | #2,318 | 11 | 0.0010% |
| 1926 | #4,132 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1924 | #4,869 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1922 | #2,980 | 10 | 0.0009% |
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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