Stockwell

6,354 people in the United States were counted with the surname Stockwell in the 2020 census, making it the 5,296th most common in the country. That is about one person in 47,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,354
Rank: 5,296th
How common: 1 in 47,000
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English stocc (“tree trunk, stump”) + wella (“well, spring, stream”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Stockwell

Dean Stockwell (1936–2021)American actor
John Stockwell (born 1961)American actor and director
Guy Stockwell (1933–2002)American actor
Harry Stockwell (1902–1984)American actor, singer
Melissa Stockwell (born 1980)Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

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

Surnames like Stockwell

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.