Stubbs
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘son of Stubb’, from a medieval nickname for a short fat man, from Old English stubb ‘tree stump’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Stubbs is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
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)
‘son of Stubb’, from a medieval nickname for a short fat man, from Old English stubb ‘tree stump’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Stubbs 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 Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of stubb
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)
- George Stubbsb. 1724GBBritish painter (1724–1806)
- William Stubbsb. 1825GBBritish historian and Anglican bishop (1825–1901)
- Reginald Edward Stubbsb. 1876GBBritish colonial administrator (1876–1947)
- Hal Clementb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican author (1922–2003)
- Levi Stubbsb. 1936USAmerican singer, actor (1936–2008)
- Una Stubbsb. 1937GBEnglish actress, television personality, and former dancer (1937-2021)
- Imogen Stubbsb. 1961GBBritish actress
- Rennae Stubbsb. 1971AUAustralian tennis player
- Alan Stubbsb. 1971GBEnglish footballer (born 1971)
- Sam Stubbsb. 1998GBassociation football player (born 1998)
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 27 sources across 17 countries.
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 Stubbs mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘son of Stubb’, from a medieval nickname for a short fat man, from Old English stubb ‘tree stump’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Stubbs have the most bearers?
- Stubbs is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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, “Stubbs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.