Stark

39,649 people in the United States were counted with the surname Stark in the 2020 census, making it the 852nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,539.

By the numbers

People: 39,649
Rank: 852nd
How common: 1 in 7,539
Per 100,000: 13.3

Where the name comes from

As a Scottish and English surname, from the adjective stark.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Black, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Stark

Johannes Stark (1874–1957)German physicist
Wolfgang Stark (born 1969)German football referee
Don Stark (born 1954)American actor
Freya Madeline Stark (1893–1993)British travel writer
Niklas Stark (born 1995)German footballer
Harold Rainsford Stark (1880–1972)American admiral
Pete Stark (1931–2020)American politician
Jonathan Stark (born 1971)American tennis player

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

Surnames like Stark

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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.