Staines
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Staines is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘person from Staines’, Surrey (‘place at the stone’, probably a milestone).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 47K(inferred from the name graph)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K
- NONorway1 in 304K
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 Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘person from Staines’, Surrey (‘place at the stone’, probably a milestone).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Staines 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 2.9K | Staines | 157 |
| US United States | 603 | 1 in 552K | 860 | Staines | 193 |
| FR France | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | listed | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | — | Staines | 5 |
| ES Spain | 20 | 1 in 2.5M | 20 | — | 17 |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | 4 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | 2 |
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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Staines is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Staines, Middlesex; first attested Richard de Stanes 1275 RH (Kent)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)
- Alfred Stainesb. 1838GBcricketer (1838-1910)
- Frank Stainesb. 1876AUAustralian rules footballer
- Graham Stainesb. 1941AUAustralian missionary in India
- David Stainesb. 1946CACanadian literary critic
- Bill Stainesb. 1947USAmerican folk musician and singer-songwriter
- Mike Stainesb. 1949USAmerican rower
- Laura Stainesb. 1953USAmerican rower
- Gary Stainesb. 1963GBBritish long distance runner
- Paul Stainesb. 1967GBBritish political blogger and former pro gamer
- John StainesNZNew Zealand association footballer
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 2.9K | #2,696 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 860 | #29,300 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 760 | #29,325 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 603 | #37,029 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20 | #86,382 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20 | #83,413 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #45,291 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #181 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru 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 Staines mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Staines’, Surrey (‘place at the stone’, probably a milestone). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Staines have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Staines in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled staines.
- How common is the name Staines?
- In the United States, the national register counted 603 people named Staines in 2010, about 1 in 552 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Staines?
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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, “Staines”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.