Stokes

Stokes is the 559th most common surname in the United States, shared by 59,097 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,058.

By the numbers

People: 59,097
Rank: 559th
How common: 1 in 5,058
Per 100,000: 19.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 56.3%
Black, not Hispanic 34.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Stokes

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903)Irish mathematician and physicist
Anthony Stokes (born 1988)Irish association football player
Ben Stokes (born 1991)cricketer
Demi Stokes (born 1991)English footballer
Chase Stokes (born 1992)American actor
Marianne Stokes (1855–1927)Austrian artist
Maurice Stokes (1933–1970)American basketball player
William Stokes (1804–1878)Irish physician

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

Surnames like Stokes

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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.