Stone

Stone is the 184th most common surname in the United States, shared by 147,006 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,033.

By the numbers

People: 147,006
Rank: 184th
How common: 1 in 2,033
Per 100,000: 49.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.4%
Black, not Hispanic 8.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Stone

Emma Stone (born 1988)American actress and producer
Sharon Stone (born 1958)American actress
Oliver Stone (born 1946)American film director, screenwriter, and producer
Richard Stone (1913–1991)British economist, Nobel Memorial Prize winner
Matt Stone (born 1971)American actor, animator and filmmaker
Joss Stone (born 1987)English singer, songwriter, and actress
Irving Stone (1903–1989)American writer
Jennifer Stone (born 1993)American actress and registered nurse

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

Surnames like Stone

Also a first name

Stone has been given to 6,831 American babies as a first name since 1919, peaking in 1999. 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.