Stöve

surname · Latin script

Stöve is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 127K
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 279K

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)

138 people, 2010

Sources
97 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 127K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Stove in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Stöve 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.

Where Stöve is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1381 in 2.4M171Stove97
GB United Kingdom≈100 est.≈1 in 642K70Stove53
BE Belgium921 in 127K92—16
AU Australia≈91 est.≈1 in 279K—Stove61
DE Germany≈76 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Stöve22
SE Sweden101 in 1M10—2
DK Denmark71 in 838K7—1

138 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Stöve is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Stove

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Stove

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Stove

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 2 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

In which country does Stöve have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 138 people named Stöve, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stove.
Where is Stöve most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stöve is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 127 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Stöve?
In the United States, the national register counted 138 people named Stöve in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.

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The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.

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, “Stöve”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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