Stager

surname · Latin script

Meaning: An actor on the stage

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Stager is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 198K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 12K
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 83K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Stager itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,200 people, est.

Sources
233 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Staeger in CH Switzerland, CD Congo - Kinshasa.

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)

An actor on the stage.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Stager 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 Stager is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈7,200 est.≈1 in 194K—Stager2
US United States1,6811 in 198K1.8KStager233
CH Switzerland7281 in 12K728Staeger29
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈690 est.≈1 in 148K—Staeger1
SA Saudi Arabia≈330 est.≈1 in 103K—Stager1
SG Singapore≈75 est.≈1 in 83K—Stager2
LB Lebanon≈50 est.≈1 in 110K—Stager1

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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Stager is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Chile, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Stäger

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Štager, Stäger

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Also written Štager, Stäger, Štägêr

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Stäger

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, San Marino

    Also written Stäger, Štager

  • Norwegian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Stäger, Štager

26 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)

Stager is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In tft, a belt

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

  • In Breton, personne ou chose qui attache ; attaquant

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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)

19201930194019501960Gus Stager, b. 1927Lawrence Stager, b. 1943Barbara Stager, b. 1948Curt Stager, b. 1956

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 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Stager
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.8K#15,194
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.7K#16,124
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.7K#16,926
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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 Stager mean, and where does it come from?
An actor on the stage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Stager have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Stager in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stager.
Where is Stager most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stager is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Stager?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,681 people named Stager in 2010, about 1 in 198 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, “Stager”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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