Stender

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Stender is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: occupational surname; bearer count 1,691 (Stender(s) 1,674+17).

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

occupational surname; bearer count 1,691 (Stender(s) 1,674+17).

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Stender counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Stender is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
US United States—2.5K—
DK Denmark—581—
NL Netherlands—166—
BR Brazil—151—
NO Norway—50—

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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Stender is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Стендер, Štender

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Stender 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 German, Berufsname für den Zimmermann; zu mnd. stender ‚tragender Pfosten, Pfahl‘. Bearer count: 1691.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of stand

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, apocopic form of stendere

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1700180019002000Gotthard Friedrich Stender, b. 1714Adolf Stender-Petersen, b. 1893Fay Stender, b. 1932Björn Stender, b. 1934Linda Stender, b. 1951Christoph Stender, b. 1957Wolfram Stender, b. 1962Tomas Stender, b. 1966Merten Stender, b. 1991Bailey Stender, b. 1999

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 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Stender
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—10#17,921

Reference works 5

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 Stender mean, and where does it come from?
occupational surname; bearer count 1,691 (Stender(s) 1,674+17). Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
In which country does Stender have the most bearers?
Stender is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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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, “Stender”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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