Stoke
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Stoke’, from numerous place-names meaning ‘outlying farmstead’ or ‘secondary settlement’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Stoke is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 345K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 557K
- ARArgentina1 in 2M
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 Stoke itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 345K (inferred from the name graph)
963 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Stoeke in US United States, DE Germany, RU Russia and 1 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)
‘person from Stoke’, from numerous place-names meaning ‘outlying farmstead’ or ‘secondary settlement’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stoke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 963 | 1 in 345K | 963 | Stoeke | 44 |
| NL Netherlands | 31 | 1 in 557K | 31 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 23 | 1 in 2M | 23 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Stoeke | 24 |
| RU Russia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 20M | — | Stoeke | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Stoeke | 1 |
963 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling stoke. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Stoke is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, places throughout England named from ME stoke (OE stoc). The exact sense in individual cases is not clear; it seems to have meant originally merely ‘place’, and to have been used mainly for an outlying hamlet or dependent settlement. Vars.: Stokes, Stoak(s), Stook(es), Stoker. root’). Stoker i. English: habitation name, a var. of Stoke. 2.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, places throughout England named from ME stoke (OE
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, To poke, pierce, thrust.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Old English; from the settlement
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Dutch, singular present subjunctive of stoken
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)
- Melis Stokeb. 1230NL13th-century Dutch writer
- Harold W. Stokeb. 1903USAmerican academic
- Fred Stokeb. 1935USAmerican retired contractor and drag racer
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 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 963 | #25,620 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 634 | #33,876 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 371 | #58,949 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 31 | #40,811 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 23 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Stoke mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Stoke’, from numerous place-names meaning ‘outlying farmstead’ or ‘secondary settlement’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Stoke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 963 people named Stoke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stoeke.
- Where is Stoke most common?
- Stoke is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 345 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Stoke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 963 people named Stoke in 2010, about 1 in 345 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stokeThe 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, “Stoke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.