Stock

At the 2020 census, 12,343 Americans bore the surname Stock — 2,843rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,200.

By the numbers

People: 12,343
Rank: 2,843rd
How common: 1 in 24,200
Per 100,000: 4.1

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from the noun stock (“stock, tree stump”). This sense is also found respectively in Dutch and German, and Slavic borrowings of them. Compare Stocker.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Stock

Gerhard Stöck (1911–1985)German shot putter and javelin thrower
Alfred Stock (1876–1946)German chemist
Leonhard Stock (born 1958)Austrian downhill skier
Simon Stock (1164–1265)English hermit
Jean-Pierre Stock (1900–1950)French rower
Frederick Stock (1872–1942)German composer
Jürgen Stock (born 1959)German law enforcement officer
Gudrun Stock (born 1995)German cyclist

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

Surnames like Stock

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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.