Stoker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: one who lived at Stoke, here Stoke Goldington, Buckinghamshire; first attested Hugh le Stoker 1227 AssBeds
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/stəwkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stoker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 48K
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands≈1 in 4.9K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 337 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
one who lived at Stoke, here Stoke Goldington, Buckinghamshire; first attested Hugh le Stoker 1227 AssBeds
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stoker 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Stoker | 3 |
| US United States | — | 6,888 | 1 in 48K | 6.9K | Stoker | 337 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 3.7K | Stoker | 158 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,644 | 1 in 11K | 1.6K | Stoker | 77 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Stoker | 8 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Stoker | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Stoker | 13 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #121 | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Stoker | 1 |
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); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Stoker is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, (i) ‘stoker’ or ‘arsonist’; (ii) ‘trumpeter’; (iii) a different form of Stoke.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In Dutch, stoker, one who stokes fuel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, stoker (item)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, trébuchet ; contacteur, heurtoir ; coupe-gorge
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)
- Bram Stokerb. 1847IEIrish novelist and short story writer (1847–1912)
- Frank Owen Stokerb. 1867IEIrish tennis and rugby union player (1867-1939)
- Henry Hugh Gordon Stokerb. 1885GBRoyal Navy officer, sportsperson and actor (1885–1966)
- Hendrik G. Stokerb. 1899ZASouth African philosopher
- James J. Stokerb. 1905USAmerican applied mathematician and engineer (1905-1992)
- Austin Stokerb. 1930USAmerican actor
- Richard Stokerb. 1938GBBritish composer (1938–2021)
- Dacre Stokerb. 1958CACanadian author
- Joss Stoneb. 1987GBnot in their usual nameEnglish singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1987)
- Petra Stokerb. 1994NLDutch former eSports 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 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.9K | #5,082 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.3K | #5,091 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6K | #5,554 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 3.7K | #2,171 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.6K | #860 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Stoker mean, and where does it come from?
- one who lived at Stoke, here Stoke Goldington, Buckinghamshire; first attested Hugh le Stoker 1227 AssBeds Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Stoker?
- A machine transcription gives /stəwkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stoker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Stoker in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stoker.
- How common is the name Stoker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,888 people named Stoker in 2010, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
- How common is Stoker compared with other names?
- In Turks & Caicos Islands, Stoker is the 121st most common surname of 3,662 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stokerThe 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, “Stoker” — the 121st most common surname in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.