# Stetson (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/stetson/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “site in the parish of south brent”, “farmstead estate” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 15,725 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 15,604 / 121 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

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 (personal name)) + tūn (“farmstead estate”). * (hat): From Stetson, an American brand of hat named after its manufacturer, John B. Stetson Company, itself named after John B. Stetson, who founded it in 1865. The hats were widely known in the 1870s and 1880s. Sol Steinmetz stated in 2010 that Stetson hat was first attested in 1900, but this is clearly mistaken, being several decades too late; it may be that what Steinmetz had meant to write is that Stetson alone as a common noun meaning a Stetson hat was first attested in 1900.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | 18,130 |
| 2020 | 6 | 14,897 |
| 2021 | 12 | 8,920 |
| 2022 | 18 | 6,684 |
| 2023 | 22 | 5,723 |
| 2024 | 21 | 5,937 |
| 2025 | 37 | 3,968 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 152 | 1,172 |
| 2012 | 165 | 1,119 |
| 2013 | 212 | 942 |
| 2014 | 272 | 833 |
| 2015 | 306 | 775 |
| 2016 | 345 | 710 |
| 2017 | 402 | 645 |
| 2018 | 468 | 586 |
| 2019 | 517 | 545 |
| 2020 | 607 | 487 |
| 2021 | 879 | 371 |
| 2022 | 1,465 | 238 |
| 2023 | 1,990 | 183 |
| 2024 | 2,337 | 155 |
| 2025 | 2,662 | 136 |

## People named Stetson

- Stetson Kennedy, Author, folklorist, anti-Ku Klux Klan crusader (1916-2011)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.