Stapleton

Stapleton is the 1,989th most common surname in the United States, shared by 17,709 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,900.

By the numbers

People: 17,709
Rank: 1,989th
How common: 1 in 16,900
Per 100,000: 5.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English stapol (“post, pillar”) + tūn (“enclsoure; settlement, town”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Stapleton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.5%
Black, not Hispanic 9.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Stapleton

Maureen Stapleton (1925–2006)American actress
Jean Stapleton (1923–2013)American actress
Frank Stapleton (born 1956)Irish footballer and manager
Sullivan Stapleton (born 1977)Australian actor
Chris Stapleton (born 1978)American country musician
Tim Stapleton (born 1982)American ice hockey player

People named Stapleton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Stapleton

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.