Stork

3,002 people in the United States were counted with the surname Stork in the 2020 census, making it the 10,217th most common in the country. That is about one person in 99,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,002
Rank: 10,217th
How common: 1 in 99,600
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

English surname from stork, a nickname for a thin man with long legs.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Stork

Gilbert Stork (1921–2017)Belgian American chemist
Hermann Stork (1911–1962)diver

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

Surnames like Stork

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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.