Stack

surname · Latin script

Meaning: medieval nickname for a large, robustly built man, from Middle English stack ‘haystack’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/stæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • IEIreland≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 19K
  • CACanada≈1 in 24K

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)

11,967 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
396 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

StackLatin(measured from records)
สแตร็คThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

medieval nickname for a large, robustly built man, from Middle English stack ‘haystack’.

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)

Stack 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 Stack is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—11,9671 in 28K12KStack396
GB United Kingdom—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 26K1.8KStack149
EG Egypt—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 58K—Stack8
IT Italy—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 35K—Stack7
CA Canada—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 24K—Stack129
AU Australia—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 19K—Stack146
IE Ireland#568≈790 est.≈1 in 6.6K—Stack86
NZ New Zealand—≈210 est.≈1 in 23K—Stack47
IS Iceland—≈21 est.≈1 in 17K—Stack2

11,967 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; 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(inferred from the name graph)

Stack is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Chile, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Stäck, Stãck

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Stäck

48 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(measured from records)

Stack 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, from ON stakkr 'hay-stack', either metonymic for a stack-builder or a nickname for one hefty as a hay-stack; first attested Robert Stac 1199 P (Bk)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, MEsfac& haystack (ON stakkr). Vars.: Stak(e) (Ireland). This surname is now less common in England than in Ireland (esp. Co. Kerry), where it was first taken in the ijth cent.; it has been Gaelicized Stac.

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

  • In English, A pile.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, ME stack haystack (ON stakkr). Vars.: Stak(e) (Ireland).

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • In Irish, Stac. This English family, in Kerry since the thirteenth century, became determined enemies of England. The name is derived from the English word stack. IF Map Kerry

    as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland

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)

1850190019502000Lee Stack, b. 1868Frank Stack, b. 1906Robert Stack, b. 1919Allen Stack, b. 1928Frank Stack, b. 1937Timothy Stack, b. 1956Jonathan Stack, b. 1957Brian Stack, b. 1967Ryan Stack, b. 1975Graham Stack, b. 1981
  • Lee Stackb. 1868INBritish Army officer and administrator (1868–1924)
  • Frank Stackb. 1906CACanadian speed skater (1906–1987)
  • Robert Stackb. 1919USAmerican actor (1919–2003)
  • Allen Stackb. 1928USAmerican swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder, lawyer (1928-1999)
  • Frank Stackb. 1937USAmerican cartoonist
  • Timothy Stackb. 1956USAmerican film and television actor and screenwriter
  • Jonathan Stackb. 1957USAmerican filmmaker
  • Brian Stackb. 1967USAmerican comic actor and writer
  • Ryan Stackb. 1975USAmerican basketball player
  • Graham Stackb. 1981GBIrish association football player (born 1981)

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)

FormalDear Stack,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Stack
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201012K#2,996
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200012K#2,810
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202011K#3,176
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)20021.8K#4,057
GB United KingdomA Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Stack mean, and where does it come from?
medieval nickname for a large, robustly built man, from Middle English stack ‘haystack’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Stack?
A machine transcription gives /stæk/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Stack have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Stack, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stack.
How common is the name Stack?
In the United States, the national register counted 11,967 people named Stack in 2010, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
How common is Stack compared with other names?
In Ireland, Stack is the 568th most common surname of 73,729 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, “Stack” — the 568th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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