Stockton

At the 2020 census, 12,626 Americans bore the surname Stockton — 2,780th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 23,700.

By the numbers

People: 12,626
Rank: 2,780th
How common: 1 in 23,700
Per 100,000: 4.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English stocc (“log; stump, tree trunk”) or stoc (“house, dwelling”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”)..

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.1%
Black, not Hispanic 8.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Stockton

John Stockton (born 1962)American basketball player
Robert F. Stockton (1795–1866)United States Navy officer
Richard Stockton (1730–1781)American lawyer, jurist and legislator
David Stockton (born 1991)American basketball player
Dick Stockton (born 1951)American tennis player
Donald Stockton (1904–1978)Canadian wrestler
Frank R. Stockton (1834–1902)American writer
John P. Stockton (1826–1900)American politician

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

Surnames like Stockton

Also a first name

Stockton has been given to 1,366 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2020. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.