Stetson
The boy's name Stetson has been in the national records since 1930, with 15,725 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 136th. About 16,000 Stetsons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 3.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Stetson boys named Stetson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 15,725
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 3
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 136th
- Rank in 2025
- 136th
- First recorded
- 1930
- Girls / boys
- 121 / 15,604
How old the living Stetsons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 15,725 babies given the name since 1930, about 16,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 13,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2022 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
A variant of Stitson, a habitational name from Stidston (“site in the Parish of South Brent”), from Middle English Stidewardesdoune, Stidewardeston, Stitewardeston, Styddeston, from Old English *Stīthweardes (genitive of *Stīthweard) + tūn (“farmstead estate”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Stetsons
- Stetson Kennedy (1916–2011)Author, folklorist, anti-Ku Klux Klan crusader
People named Stetson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Stetson is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Stetson is most concentrated in Idaho (6.9×), Utah (6.6×), Montana (4.3×), Oklahoma (3.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Stetson peaked:
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Stetson 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.