# Stone (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/stone/  
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 | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /stoʊ̯n/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,831 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,676 / 155 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 26, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From stone. Doublet of Steen and Stein.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | 17,360 |
| 2012 | 5 | 19,208 |
| 2014 | 6 | 16,279 |
| 2015 | 7 | 14,331 |
| 2016 | 9 | 11,677 |
| 2017 | 10 | 10,609 |
| 2018 | 8 | 12,353 |
| 2019 | 6 | 15,342 |
| 2020 | 17 | 6,889 |
| 2021 | 20 | 6,148 |
| 2022 | 20 | 6,190 |
| 2023 | 13 | 8,437 |
| 2024 | 11 | 9,487 |
| 2025 | 17 | 6,796 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 168 | 1,105 |
| 2012 | 139 | 1,271 |
| 2013 | 163 | 1,117 |
| 2014 | 178 | 1,088 |
| 2015 | 156 | 1,188 |
| 2016 | 178 | 1,103 |
| 2017 | 185 | 1,071 |
| 2018 | 177 | 1,109 |
| 2019 | 211 | 996 |
| 2020 | 189 | 1,063 |
| 2021 | 218 | 1,005 |
| 2022 | 229 | 987 |
| 2023 | 222 | 995 |
| 2024 | 212 | 1,045 |
| 2025 | 258 | 916 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | 2,020 |
| 2001 | 5 | 2,220 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 石
- Czech: Skála
- German: Stein
- Polish: Kamień

## People named Stone

- Stone Gossard, American guitarist (born 1966)
- Stone Johnson, American sprinter and football player (1940-1963)

## 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.