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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Stone” in the USA?

Number of people named “Stone” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Stone” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Stone” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Stone” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Stone” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Stone” by birth year

This chart shows how “Stone” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1919 7 0.000003317 7 -100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 -100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 -100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 -100%
1936 7 0.000003369 7 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 -100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 -100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 -100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 -100%
1991 11 0.000002824 11 -100%
1992 32 0.000008331 32 -100%
1993 54 0.000014323 54 -100%
1994 100 0.000026899 100 -100%
1995 164 0.000044782 164 -100%
1996 228 0.000062514 228 -100%
1997 277 0.000076398 277 -100%
1998 285 0.000077483 285 -100%
1999 288 0.000077967 288 -100%
2000 242 0.000064023 242 -100%
2001 260 0.000069456 260 -100%
2002 202 0.000054035 202 -100%
2003 182 0.000047866 182 -100%
2004 183 0.000047894 183 -100%
2005 185 0.000048116 185 -100%
2006 192 0.000048532 192 -100%
2007 231 0.000057783 6 225 -95%
2008 191 0.000048592 191 -100%
2009 198 0.00005183 198 -100%
2010 175 0.000047352 175 -100%
2011 168 0.000045929 168 -100%
2012 144 0.000039373 5 139 -93%
2013 163 0.000044711 163 -100%
2014 184 0.000049644 6 178 -93%
2015 163 0.000044043 7 156 -91%
2016 187 0.000050972 9 178 -90%
2017 195 0.000054527 10 185 -90%
2018 185 0.000052618 8 177 -91%
2019 217 0.000062519 6 211 -94%
2020 206 0.000061666 17 189 -83%
2021 238 0.000070249 20 218 -83%
2022 249 0.0000736 20 229 -84%
2023 235 0.000070971 13 222 -89%
2024 221 0.000066396 11 210 -90%

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