Primarily a boy's name · 99% boys
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Stetson yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Stetson is up 756% across ten years, the steepest climb anywhere in this slice and one of the steepest on the site outside the two four-figure outliers. Its history is threadbare to match: recorded in 1930, then missing entirely through the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and 13,016 births in total across everything since. There are no namesakes of any kind. What there is, unmistakably, is a hat — the John B. Stetson Company has been making them since the 1860s, and the name functions as a piece of Western Americana rather than as a personal name with any lineage. It reached 2,328 births and rank 155 in 2024, both records. Names carried by a single cultural association tend to move fast in both directions.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 5 | #4,482 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,880 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,508 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,332 |
| 1984 | 29 | #1,928 |
| 1985 | 34 | #1,787 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,318 |
| 1987 | 64 | #1,216 |
| 1988 | 83 | #1,097 |
| 1989 | 108 | #982 |
| 1990 | 102 | #1,054 |
| 1991 | 124 | #960 |
| 1992 | 130 | #943 |
| 1993 | 159 | #839 |
| 1994 | 168 | #820 |
| 1995 | 152 | #891 |
| 1996 | 123 | #1,018 |
| 1997 | 122 | #1,050 |
| 1998 | 109 | #1,159 |
| 1999 | 107 | #1,201 |
| 2000 | 105 | #1,257 |
| 2001 | 76 | #1,585 |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,457 |
| 2003 | 80 | #1,589 |
| 2004 | 73 | #1,746 |
| 2005 | 94 | #1,524 |
| 2006 | 94 | #1,572 |
| 2007 | 98 | #1,605 |
| 2008 | 121 | #1,406 |
| 2009 | 126 | #1,366 |
| 2010 | 145 | #1,227 |
| 2011 | 152 | #1,172 |
| 2012 | 165 | #1,119 |
| 2013 | 212 | #942 |
| 2014 | 272 | #832 |
| 2015 | 306 | #775 |
| 2016 | 345 | #710 |
| 2017 | 402 | #645 |
| 2018 | 468 | #586 |
| 2019 | 517 | #545 |
| 2020 | 607 | #487 |
| 2021 | 879 | #371 |
| 2022 | 1,465 | #238 |
| 2023 | 1,989 | #183 |
| 2024 | 2,328 | #155 |
