Stinson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a different form of Stenson (ii)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈstɪnsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stinson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 12K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 214K
- NONorway1 in 391K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
26,681 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a different form of Stenson (ii).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stinson 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 | — | 26,681 | 1 in 12K | 27K | Stinson | 50 |
| AR Argentina | — | 73 | 1 in 623K | 73 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 26 | 1 in 214K | 26 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 14 | 1 in 391K | 14 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 13 | 1 in 3.8M | 13 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| BF Burkina Faso | #138 | — | — | — | Stinson | 1 |
26,681 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Katherine Stinsonb. 1891USAmerican aviator
- Edward Anderson Stinsonb. 1893USAmerican aviator (1893-1932)
- Marjorie Stinsonb. 1896USAmerican aviator
- K. William Stinsonb. 1930USAmerican politician (1930-2002)
- Joseph Stinsonb. 1953USscreenwriter
- Tommy Stinsonb. 1966USAmerican musician
- Andrea Stinsonb. 1967USAmerican basketball player (born 1967)
- Rockwilderb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican record producer
- Donavon Stinsonb. 1976CACanadian actor
- Josh Stinsonb. 1988USAmerican baseball player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 27K | #1,317 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 26K | #1,254 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 26K | #1,342 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 73 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 26 | #40,004 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #49,110 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Stinson mean, and where does it come from?
- a different form of Stenson (ii). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Stinson?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstɪnsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stinson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Stinson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stinson.
- Where is Stinson most common?
- Stinson is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Stinson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 26,681 people named Stinson in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Stinson compared with other names?
- In Burkina Faso, Stinson is the 138th most common surname of 4,677 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Stinson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stinsonThe 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, “Stinson” — the 138th most common surname in Burkina Faso. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.