Stoney
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from residence near gravelly low-lying land; first attested Amica de Staneya 1328 WhC (Lancashire)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Stoney is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Canada.
- CACanada
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from residence near gravelly low-lying land; first attested Amica de Staneya 1328 WhC (Lancashire)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Stoney 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 English, Obsolete form of stony.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, A locative name from Yorkshire. In Ireland since the end of the seventeenth century but seldom on record except as Anglo-Irish landed gentry in north Tipperary. Bibl
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- George Johnstone Stoneyb. 1826IEAnglo-Irish physicist (1826-1911)
- Bindon Blood Stoneyb. 1828IEIrish civil engineer (1828–1909)
- Edith Anne Stoneyb. 1869GBAnglo-Irish medical physicist
- George C. Stoneyb. 1916USAmerican filmmaker (1916–2012)
- Kevin Stoneyb. 1921GBBritish actor (1921-2008)
- Stoney Burkeb. 1953USAmerican musician and comedian
- Stoney Jacksonb. 1960USAmerican actor
- Stoney Curtisb. 1963USAmerican pornographic film director, actor, producer
- Levar Stoneyb. 1981USAmerican politician
- Casey Stoneyb. 1982GBEnglish association football player (born 1982)
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 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,364 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,376 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,745 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 671 | #9,036 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #229,772 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1 | #27,162 |
| 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
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Stoney mean, and where does it come from?
- from residence near gravelly low-lying land; first attested Amica de Staneya 1328 WhC (Lancashire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Stoney have the most bearers?
- Stoney is most frequently recorded in Canada.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Stoney”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.