# Stockton (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/stockton/  
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 | English |
| Meaning | “log”, “stump”, “tree trunk”, “house”, “dwelling”, “enclosure”, “settlement”, “town” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈstɑktən/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,366 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,366 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Old English stocc (“log; stump, tree trunk”) or stoc (“house, dwelling”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). By surface analysis, stock + -ton. Doublet of Stoughton.

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 45 | 2,696 |
| 2012 | 57 | 2,289 |
| 2013 | 57 | 2,273 |
| 2014 | 49 | 2,538 |
| 2015 | 54 | 2,406 |
| 2016 | 60 | 2,252 |
| 2017 | 35 | 3,303 |
| 2018 | 49 | 2,610 |
| 2019 | 47 | 2,730 |
| 2020 | 62 | 2,231 |
| 2021 | 53 | 2,519 |
| 2022 | 45 | 2,866 |
| 2023 | 42 | 2,996 |
| 2024 | 40 | 3,096 |
| 2025 | 35 | 3,370 |

## People named Stockton

- Stockton Rush, American businessman (1962–2023)
- Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (1937–2005)

## 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.