Stöver

Name: Stöver: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
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Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Meaning: Historische Formen zu einem Berufsname; wohl auch zu mnd

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

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

SGSingapore≈1 in 9.5Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
USUnited States1 in 14K
GBUnited Kingdom≈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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Stöver itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: United States (measured from records)
Record sources: 410 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Stover in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more and Stoever in IE Ireland.

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

recorded in German

Historische Formen zu einem Berufsname; wohl auch zu mnd. stuven 'stutzen, abhauen, abholzen' oder als Übername zu 'Stüber' (Münze).

Cited for this meaning 1

Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Stöver 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 Stöver is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
US United States	—	24,526	1 in 14K	25K	Stover	410
GB United Kingdom	—	≈4,200 est.	≈1 in 16K	45	Stover	64
DE Germany	—	≈2,400 est.	≈1 in 35K	—	Stöver	63
CA Canada	—	≈2,200 est.	≈1 in 19K	—	Stover	82
AU Australia	—	≈1,100 est.	≈1 in 26K	—	Stover	41
SG Singapore	#858	≈630 est.	≈1 in 9.5K	—	Stover	3
IE Ireland	—	≈330 est.	≈1 in 16K	—	Stoever	6

24,526 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). 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

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

Spanish surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Also written Stover
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Stover
Russian surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian
Also written Stover, Стоверь, Стовер

7 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses

Stöver 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 German, Schreibung mit ö/ü; 1155 Träger. Das Blatt zeigt labiale Plosiv-/Frikativ-Variation: St(ö/ü)ver sowie Sto(e)ver und Buck-stöver.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

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

Helga Stöverb. 1926DEGerman educationist
Hans Dieter Stöverb. 1937DEGerman writer (1937–2020)
Heino Stöverb. 1956DEGerman author
Uwe Stöverb. 1967DEGerman footballer
Birgit Stöverb. 1970DEGerman politician

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

4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 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.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Stöver mean?: Recorded meaning: Historische Formen zu einem Berufsname; wohl auch zu mnd.
In which country does Stöver have the most bearers?: In the United States, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Stöver, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stover.
How common is the name Stöver?: In the United States, the national register counted 24,526 people named Stöver in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
How common is Stöver compared with other names?: In Singapore, Stöver is the 858th most common surname of 78,292 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 2026-10-13 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, “Stöver” — the 858th most common surname in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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