Primarily a girl's name · Unisex — 63% girls / 37% boys
Sutton is a given name of English origin, a transferred use of a surname and place name meaning "from the southern homestead".
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In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Sutton yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Sutton carries the weakest placing anywhere in this slice at 197, despite growing 332% over the decade and setting records in 2024 with 1,559 births. A record year that still leaves a name outside the top hundred and fifty describes something arriving rather than something established. Recorded from 1963, just 17,295 births in total. The single listed bearer is the actor Sutton Foster, born 1975, who has been prominent on Broadway for two decades and is a more plausible source than most single-namesake attributions in these batches. Like Beckett and Hadley it is a surname with no personal history behind it in American use, and like them it is being chosen for shape rather than meaning.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 20 | #2,850 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,070 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,174 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,479 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,968 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,295 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,445 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,132 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,956 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,228 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,593 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,144 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,253 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,936 |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,004 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,224 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,714 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,410 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,353 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,597 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,680 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,557 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,676 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,822 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,970 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,227 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,080 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,719 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,462 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,840 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,525 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,295 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,250 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,508 |
| 2012 | 243 | #1,040 |
| 2013 | 316 | #836 |
| 2014 | 361 | #778 |
| 2015 | 423 | #676 |
| 2016 | 434 | #674 |
| 2017 | 500 | #605 |
| 2018 | 582 | #539 |
| 2019 | 755 | #417 |
| 2020 | 959 | #324 |
| 2021 | 1,249 | #245 |
| 2022 | 1,370 | #217 |
| 2023 | 1,459 | #205 |
| 2024 | 1,559 | #197 |
