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The first name 
Stuart

Stuart is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.

When two boys called Stuart meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Stuart is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Stuart. In the SmartGenius ranking, Stuart is #1,824 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 62,990 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Stuart. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Stuart

Stuart -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Stuart annualy. This means that there have been boys named Stuart who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Stuart have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Stuart even more than any other time: in 1960, it holds its present record at rank #158 in the list of the most popular boys' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Stuart was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Stuart 2022 among young parents?

Stuart has never been ranked higher than #158. In 2022, he rivaled the 2,084 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 60 boys named Stuart were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Stuart were born, there have been 519 newborns who received this name.

Stuart -
at home in every state from California to New York

The name Stuart may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Stuart is apparently especially popular in New York. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 1,195 men in New York is called Stuart. In total, that’s 10,684 people who feel addressed when the name Stuart is shouted loudly across New York and who ensure that their name makes it to #187 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Stuart as the answer a total of 62,990 times. This places Stuart at #380 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Stuart as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.

Stuart has 6 letters 
and begins with an S

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 six letters, the name Stuart is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Stuart

If your name is Stuart 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...

This is how you spell the name Stuart

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Stuart, you can simply say:

Sun

Tiger

Unicorn

Apple

Rocket

Tiger

This is how the name Stuart is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Stuart in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Stuart

Stuart

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Stuart

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Stuart is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

S
T
U
A
R
T

Have you ever waved the name Stuart

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.

S
T
U
A
R
T

Beeping like crazy...

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. Stuart sounds like this: