Stuart
The boy's name Stuart has been in the national records since 1880, with 69,190 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,516th. About 45,000 Stuarts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Stuart boys named Stuart
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 69,190
- Estimated living today
- 45,000
- Median age today
- 60
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 161st
- Rank in 2025
- 2,516th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 314 / 68,876
How old the living Stuarts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 69,190 babies given the name since 1880, about 45,000 are alive — 65 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 16,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1965 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
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Stuarts
- John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)British philosopher and political economist
- Stuart Sutcliffe (1940–1962)Scottish painter and musician better known as the original bass guitarist of the English rock band the Beatles
- Stuart Hall (1932–2014)Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist
- Stuart Pearce (born 1962)English footballer and manager
- Stuart Whitman (1928–2020)American actor
- Stuart Roosa (1933–1994)American astronaut
- Stuart Bingham (born 1976)English snooker player
- Stuart Holden (born 1985)American soccer player
People named Stuart with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Stuart is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Stuart is most concentrated in New York (2.2×), Vermont (2.1×), Virginia (2.1×), the District of Columbia (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular boys’ names the year Stuart peaked:
Stuart elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Stuart | 15,065 | 14th |
| New Zealand boys | Stuart | 4,662 | 38th |
| England and Wales boys | Stuart | 2,422 | 111th |
| Ireland boys | Stuart | 1,589 | 79th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Stuart | 294 | 64th |
| France boys | Stuart | 170 | 1,909th |
| Poland boys | Stuart | 2 birth registrations | 663rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Stuart among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Stuart | 19 | 74 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Try it on yourself
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.