Stanford
The boy's name Stanford has been in the national records since 1880, with 7,727 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 6,803rd. About 3,900 Stanfords are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 59.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Stanford
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,727
- Estimated living today
- 3,900
- Median age today
- 59
- Peak year
- 1954
- Best rank
- 633rd
- Rank in 2025
- 6,803rd
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Stanfords are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,727 babies given the name since 1880, about 3,900 are alive — 50 in every hundred. Roughly 260 of them are children and 1,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1966 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Various placenames from Old English stān (“stone”) + ford (“ford”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Stanfords
- Stanford Moore (1913–1982)American biochemist
- Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1922–2012)prolific American inventor and scientist
- Stanford White (1853–1906)American architect
- Stanford J. Shaw (1930–2006)American historian
People named Stanford with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Stanford is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Stanford is most concentrated in Hawaii (14.4×), Louisiana (3.7×), Pennsylvania (3.0×), Virginia (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1954
The most popular boys’ names the year Stanford peaked:
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Stanford against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.