Stancu
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/stanku/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stancu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Bulgarian Станко (Stanko).
- RORomania≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova≈1 in 35K
- ESSpain1 in 49K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Bulgarian Станко (Stanko).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stancu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #51 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Stancu | 88 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,021 | 1 in 49K | 1K | Stancu | 41 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Stancu | 27 |
| FR France | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 177K | 47 | Stancu | 2 |
| US United States | — | 139 | 1 in 2.4M | 193 | Stancu | 103 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 1 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 50 | 1 in 109K | 50 | — | 4 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); e-services.md — living population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zaharia Stancub. 1902RORomanian writer (1902–1974)
- Constantin Stancub. 1956RORomanian footballer
- Constantin Romeo Stancub. 1978RORomanian footballer
- Stelian Stancub. 1981RORomanian footballer
- Sergiu Stancub. 1982RORomanian volleyball player
- Ionuț Cristian Stancub. 1983RORomanian footballer
- Bogdan Stancub. 1987RORomanian association football player
- Cristina Stancub. 1990RORomanian tennis player
- Mihai Stancub. 1996ROassociation football player
- Andreea Stancub. 2000RORomanian 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 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1K | #4,343 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1K | #4,340 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 193 | #100,083 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 139 | #123,796 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 114 | #135,837 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 50 | #26,148 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | — | — |
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 Stancu mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Bulgarian Станко (Stanko). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Stancu?
- A machine transcription gives /stanku/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Stancu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Stancu in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stancu.
- How common is the name Stancu?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,021 people named Stancu, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
- How common is Stancu compared with other names?
- In Romania, Stancu is the 51st most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stancuThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Stancu” — the 51st most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.