Stockton is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Stockton is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Stockton. In the SmartGenius ranking, Stockton is #2,226 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Stockton.
In fact, the name Stockton did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Stockton seemed to be more popular than ever in 2001. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,808, 55 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Stockton, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Stockton was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Stockton a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #2,496 - with a total of 45 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With eight letters, the name Stockton is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Stockton and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Stockton, you can simply say:
Sun
Tiger
Orange
Cat
Koala
Tiger
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Stockton
Stockton
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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T
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C
K
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O
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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T
O
C
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Stockton sounds like this:
