Stan
Stan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 386th, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1959419 births
- Best rank
- #386in 1959
- Since 1914
- 8,473people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,473 boys have been named Stan in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 419 births.
The name has all but left use: 9 births in 2024, against 419 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 1950s alone account for 28%. It has spent 41 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Stan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 58 | |
| 1920s | 182 | |
| 1930s | 573 | |
| 1940s | 1,617 | |
| 1950s | 2,368 | |
| 1960s | 2,303 | |
| 1970s | 602 | |
| 1980s | 353 | |
| 1990s | 167 | |
| 2000s | 96 | |
| 2010s | 113 | |
| 2020s | 41 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Stan was the 386th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Stan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lespeak 1961
- Gerrypeak 1958
- Barrypeak 1962
- Kentpeak 1962
- Vicpeak 1958
- Kenpeak 1960
- Mickeypeak 1957
- Douglaspeak 1957
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.