Stake
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/steɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stake is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uganda than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 355K(measured from records)
- UGUganda≈1 in 198
- NONorway1 in 27K
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.
- Uganda (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 198 (inferred from the name graph)
≈220,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uganda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stake 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UG Uganda | #34 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 198 | — | Stake | 1 |
| US United States | — | 938 | 1 in 355K | 1K | Stake | 192 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 259K | 58 | Stake | 37 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Stake | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | Stake | 43 |
| NO Norway | — | 202 | 1 in 27K | 202 | — | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 184 | 1 in 55K | 184 | Stake | 23 |
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); the dfa-band-5 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Stake 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 German, from nd. stake 'stange, zaunstecken'; cf. Stachel
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Swedish, synonym of ljusstake (“candlestick; candelabrum”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, A stake; wood put in the ground as a marker or support.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, singular past subjunctive of steken
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, stake, long usually wooden pole
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)
- Anders Noruddeb. 1960SEnot in their usual nameSwedish musician
- Anna Stakeb. 1971SESwedish sculptor
- Jan Stakeb. 1971SEresearcher
- Per Eriksson StakeSESwedish military personnel
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,428 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 969 | #26,524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 938 | #26,110 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 202 | #7,773 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 184 | #4,472 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 58 | #46,401 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Stake mean, and where does it come from?
- A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Stake?
- A machine transcription gives /steɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stake have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 218 thousand people named Stake in Uganda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stake.
- How common is the name Stake?
- In the United States, the national register counted 938 people named Stake in 2010, about 1 in 355 thousand residents.
- How common is Stake compared with other names?
- In Uganda, Stake is the 34th most common surname of 6,307 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, “Stake” — the 34th most common surname in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.