Stanton
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Stanton, from various English places meaning ‘farmstead on stony ground’ or ‘farmstead by prehistoric standing stones’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Stanton is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 9.2K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 9.6K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 477 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
35,997 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Stanton, from various English places meaning ‘farmstead on stony ground’ or ‘farmstead by prehistoric standing stones’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Stanton, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stanton counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 35,997 | 1 in 9.2K | 36K | Stanton | 477 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 12K | Stanton | 230 |
| AU Australia | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 1 | — | 161 |
| CA Canada | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | 1 | Stanton | 153 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 3 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 107 | 1 in 7K | 107 | — | 6 |
| KY Cayman Islands | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Stanton | 2 |
35,997 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Stanton is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from one of several places called Stanton or Staunton, meaning 'enclosure on stony ground'; first attested Godwine æt Stantune c1055 OEByn
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Any of several placenames in Britain from Saxon words meaning stone and enclosure.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Rocky meadow; English/Old English.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Edwin M. Stantonb. 1814USAmerican lawyer and politician (1814–1869)
- Elizabeth Cady Stantonb. 1815USAmerican writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist (1815–1902)
- Charles Stanton Ogleb. 1865USactor (1865-1940)
- Frank Stantonb. 1908USbroadcasting executive (1908-2006)
- Harry Dean Stantonb. 1926USAmerican actor (1926–2017)
- Anton Szandor LaVeyb. 1930USnot in their usual namefounder of the Church of Satan; author of the Satanic Bible (1930-1997)
- Stanton T. Friedmanb. 1934USAmerican ufologist (1934–2019)
- Gregory Stantonb. 1950USAmerican academic and activist
- Ken Calvertb. 1953USnot in their usual nameU.S. Representative from California
- Andrew Stantonb. 1965USAmerican animator, film director and screenwriter (born 1965)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 36K | #968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 35K | #909 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 34K | #997 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 12K | #648 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 107 | #518 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Stanton mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Stanton, from various English places meaning ‘farmstead on stony ground’ or ‘farmstead by prehistoric standing stones’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Stanton have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Stanton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stanton.
- How common is the name Stanton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 35,997 people named Stanton in 2010, about 1 in 9.2 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Stanton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.