Stockton
Stockton is a boy's name that peaked in 2020, when it was the 2,212th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,314th. About 1,300 Stocktons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Stockton
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,366
- Estimated living today
- 1,300
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2020
- Best rank
- 2,212th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,314th
- First recorded
- 1917
How old the living Stocktons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,366 babies given the name since 1917, about 1,300 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 850 of them are children and 2 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 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 Old English
From Old English stocc (“log; stump, tree trunk”) or stoc (“house, dwelling”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”)..
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Stocktons
- Stockton Rush (1962–2023)American businessman
People named Stockton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Stockton is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Stockton is most concentrated in Utah (103.4×), Idaho (18.7×), Texas (0.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2020
The most popular boys’ names the year Stockton peaked:
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Stockton 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.