Stöcker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupation: stock- or clerk-related byname; from stock/stick
/ʃtœkʰɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stöcker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 3.8K
- DEGermany≈1 in 16K
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
- 342 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Stocker in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
occupation: stock- or clerk-related byname; from stock/stick
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stöcker 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 | — | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Stocker | 4 |
| US United States | — | 6,561 | 1 in 51K | 6.6K | Stocker | 342 |
| DE Germany | #602 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Stocker | 122 |
| CH Switzerland | #116 | 4,248 | 1 in 2K | 4.2K | Stocker | 83 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 3.5K | Stocker | 171 |
| AT Austria | #172 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Stocker | 91 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Stocker | 2 |
| LI Liechtenstein | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | 32 | — | 9 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Stöcker is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Stock
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Berufsname zu mhd./mnd. stocker 'Stockmeister, Gefängniswärter'; 2820 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Zu Stock/Stocke „Stock, Stange, Baumstamm“; umlautische Variante des Typs Stocker. Bearer count: 2820.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)
- Johann Stöckerb. 1835DEGerman politician (1835-1913)
- Karl August Heinrich Stöckerb. 1845DEGerman politician and farmer (1845-1908)
- Helene Stöckerb. 1869DEGerman feminist, pacifist and gender activist (1869–1943)
- Adele Bloesch-Stöckerb. 1875CHSwiss composer (1875-1978)
- Hermann Stöckerb. 1938DEEast German footballer (1938–2022)
- Joachim Stöckerb. 1944DEGerman politician (1944–2023)
- Winfried Stöckerb. 1947DEGerman medical specialist, entrepreneur and university teacher
- Horst Stöckerb. 1952DEGerman theoretical physicist and astrophysicist
- Patrik Stöckerb. 1992DEGerman rower
- Christiane Stöckerb. 2000DEGerman model
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 36 | #23,866 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Stöcker mean, and where does it come from?
- occupation: stock- or clerk-related byname; from stock/stick Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Stöcker?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃtœkʰɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Stöcker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Stöcker in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stocker.
- Where is Stöcker most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stöcker is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Stöcker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,561 people named Stöcker in 2010, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Stöcker compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Stöcker is the 116th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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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.
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, “Stöcker” — the 116th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.