Stanton
Masculine · “stone settlement”
Stanton is an English place name and one of the plainest: the stone farmstead, or the settlement by a notable stone. There are Stantons all over England.
How old is the name Stanton?
Stanton was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Stanton alive today was born around 1954, making them about 71 years old. About 4,000 people named Stanton are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Stanton most popular?
Stanton peaked in 1949, reaching #645 nationally. Today it ranks #3757, 3,112 places below that high. See the whole 1949 chart.
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Where it comes from
From stan tun to Stanton
The story of Stanton
Anglo-Saxon settlers named places for what was there, and a conspicuous stone was worth naming for — which is why several English Stantons sit near prehistoric monuments their namers did not build. Families took the place names, and Stanton reached America with English settlement. Its use as a given name is nineteenth and twentieth-century and appears in real numbers in the mid-century records.
Meaning
stone settlement
From Old English stan, a stone, and tun, a farmstead; the stone in question was often a standing stone or a boundary marker rather than a building material, and Stanton Drew in Somerset sits beside a stone circle.
How the name formed
- stan tun
- Stanton
Related forms: Staunton · Stanley
Pronouncing Stanton
STAN-tuhn
Two syllables, first stressed. There is no variation.
Nicknames for Stanton
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most boys named
- 1954115 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #645reached in 1949
- Change vs 2022
- −19.4%29 in 2025, from 36
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Stanton in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Staunton in English — spelling variant
- Stanley in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, North Carolina, Tennessee.
Stantons among us
people named Stanton are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 58,899 born in 2025 was named Stanton
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Romie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Stanton's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Romie climbed just as high around 1904, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Romie's path sketches the road Stanton is walking now.
Stanton sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Stanton is headed
Stanton should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Stanton beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Stanton in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled place-name meaning drawn from a real and often prehistoric landscape.
- Stan is a complete short form with a long independent history.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- It reads as a surname to people meeting it in front of another one.
- Stan is strongly associated with one mid-century generation.
- Stanton and Staunton are both in use and said differently.
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Frequently asked
- How many Stantons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,000 people named Stanton are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Stanton in 2025?
- Stanton ranks #3757 among US boy names in 2025, with 29 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Stanton?
- About 1 in every 58,899 US boys born in 2025 was named Stanton — 29 in all.
- Will my child share the name Stanton with classmates?
- Stanton will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Stanton
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