Meaning and history
From a surname derived from a place name meaning “stone ford” in Old English.
20062006: 21 births, rank #4,370
2007: 14 births, rank #5,901
2008: 15 births, rank #5,767
2009: 12 births, rank #6,802
2010: 16 births, rank #5,478
20112011: 7 births, rank #9,600
2012: 21 births, rank #4,533
2013: 15 births, rank #5,659
2014: 20 births, rank #4,702
2015: 18 births, rank #5,058
20162016: 12 births, rank #6,726
2017: 16 births, rank #5,526
2018: 17 births, rank #5,320
2019: 7 births, rank #9,756
2020: 13 births, rank #6,296
20212021: 19 births, rank #4,936
2022: 21 births, rank #4,701
2023: 7 births, rank #9,763
2024: 11 births, rank #7,257
20252025: 12 births, rank #6,803
Stanford moved from #928 to #961 for boys between 1972 and 1973. Its highest annual birth count came in 1954, with 135 births.