Stove

org · Latin script

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

Stove is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Shetland and Orkney. perhaps from Middle English stoven ‘treetrunk or -stump’ (Old Scandinavian stofn), understood as a plural in -n and made singular accordingly. Stowey.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 127K
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 279K

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)

138 people, 2010

Sources
97 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 127K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Stöve in DE Germany.

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)

Main GB Location (1881): Shetland and Orkney. perhaps from Middle English stoven ‘treetrunk or -stump’ (Old Scandinavian stofn), understood as a plural in -n and made singular accordingly. Stowey

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Where in the world(measured from records)

Stove 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.

Where Stove is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1381 in 2.4M171Stove97
GB United Kingdom≈100 est.≈1 in 642K70Stove53
BE Belgium921 in 127K92—16
AU Australia≈91 est.≈1 in 279K—Stove61
DE Germany≈76 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Stöve22
SE Sweden101 in 1M10—2
DK Denmark71 in 838K7—1

138 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Stove is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Stöve

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Stöve

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Stöve

  • French name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Canada

    Also written Stöve

25 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Sverre Stove, b. 1905David Stove, b. 1927Josefine Jinder, b. 1988Johnathan Stove, b. 1995

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 12 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Stove
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000171#98,298
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020151#120,768
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010138#124,548
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200892#16,671
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200270#41,368
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—10#38,914
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—7#51,129
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1#64,290
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Stove mean?
Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Shetland and Orkney. perhaps from Middle English stoven ‘treetrunk or -stump’ (Old Scandinavian stofn), understood as a plural in -n and made singular accordingly. Stowey
In which country does Stove have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 138 people named Stove, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stove.
Where is Stove most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stove is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 127 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Stove?
In the United States, the national register counted 138 people named Stove in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.

What do you want to know about Stove?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stove

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

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, “Stove”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Stove parses inside a full name →