Stocks
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a different form of Stock
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/stɑks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stocks is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 67th most common surname.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 26K
- USUnited States1 in 71K
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)
- Sources
- 319 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
4,708 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a different form of Stock.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stocks 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 | — | 4,708 | 1 in 71K | 4.7K | Stocks | 319 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 5.7K | Stocks | 180 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Stocks | 113 |
| LR Liberia | #67 | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Stocks | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Stocks | 59 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Stocks | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Stocks | 31 |
4,708 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Stocks 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 Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of stock
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, genitive singular of Stock
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)
- Lumb Stocksb. 1812GBEnglish engraver (1812–1892)
- John Ellerton Stocksb. 1822GBBritish botanist (1822–1854)
- Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocksb. 1891GBBritish writer and college principal (1891-1975)
- Margaret Stocksb. 1895GBBritish badminton and tennis player (1895–1985)
- Christian Stocksb. 1947DEGerman regional historian
- Brett Stocksb. 1963AUAustralian swimmer
- Alan Stocksb. 1967actor
- Alexander Stocksb. 1979SESwedish actor
- Tamara Stocksb. 1979USAmerican basketball player, center
- Sheila StocksGBBritish 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5.7K | #1,381 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.7K | #7,107 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.6K | #7,049 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.5K | #6,905 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Stocks mean, and where does it come from?
- a different form of Stock. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Stocks?
- A machine transcription gives /stɑks/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stocks have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Stocks, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stocks.
- How common is the name Stocks?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,708 people named Stocks in 2010, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
- How common is Stocks compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Stocks is the 67th most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stocksThe 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, “Stocks” — the 67th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.