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Stoney

Stoney reached its high-water mark in 1963 at number 498, and has been recorded 3,260 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,240th. About 2,800 Stoneys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 46.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Stoney boys named Stoney

By the numbers

Total US births
3,260
Estimated living today
2,800
Median age today
46
Peak year
1963
Best rank
498th
Rank in 2025
3,240th
First recorded
1922
Girls / boys
168 / 3,092

How old the living Stoneys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,260 babies given the name since 1922, about 2,800 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 560 of them are children and 270 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1979 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 Stoney is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Stoney is most concentrated in Texas (6.0×), Oklahoma (5.2×), North Carolina (3.4×), Tennessee (2.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1963

The most popular boys’ names the year Stoney peaked:

All the names of 1963

Related names

Stoney 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.