Stetson
For 2025 the count puts Stetson at #136 nationwide, and it is climbing. First recorded 1930, best year 2025, 15,604 bearers across the whole run.
Stetson’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Stetson, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Stetson since 1930
Stetson is at its all-time peak right now: #136 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Stetson is most common
Stetson is most common in Wyoming: 1.38% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. North Dakota (0.89%) and South Dakota (0.75%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Stetson
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Sloane
#141 in 2025
Scottie
#126 in 2025
Sawyer
#122 in 2025
Sage
#160 in 2025
Skylar
#167 in 2025
Sutton
#181 in 2025
Sienna
#94 in 2025
Stevie
#203 in 2025
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About Stetson
Where does Stetson rank right now?
For 2025 the count puts Stetson at #136 nationwide, and it is climbing. The chart above draws the whole run since 1930, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Stetson mean?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Stetson keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Which names sit near Stetson?
Nearest by the published recipe: Sloane, Scottie and Sawyer. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
Get Stetson’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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