Stanley
Stanley is ranked 875th among boys in 2024 (275 births). Its best rank was 34th, in 1915–1917.
- Rank in 2024
- #875down 67 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2750.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 19546,448 births
- Best rank
- #34first in 1915
- Since 1880
- 302,579people given the name
The story in the numbers
301,142 boys have been named Stanley in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1954, with 6,448 births — 0.32% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 275 births in 2024, against 6,448 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1950s alone account for 19%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 70 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,437 girls have also been given it, 0.47% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Stanley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 997 | |
| 1890s | 2,297 | |
| 1900s | 4,156 | |
| 1910s | 35,908 | |
| 1920s | 49,456 | |
| 1930s | 37,131 | |
| 1940s | 46,263 | |
| 1950s | 57,162 | |
| 1960s | 30,002 | |
| 1970s | 13,220 | |
| 1980s | 9,210 | |
| 1990s | 6,123 | |
| 2000s | 4,127 | |
| 2010s | 3,541 | |
| 2020s | 1,549 |
In 1954, its biggest year
Stanley was the 58th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1954 were Michael, Robert, James, John and David. See all of 1954.
Names that rose and fell with Stanley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vernonpeak 1920
- Arnoldpeak 1924
- Raymondpeak 1924
- Leonardpeak 1921
- Wilbertpeak 1922
- Reynoldpeak 1922
- Garlandpeak 1922
- Lylepeak 1922
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.