Stapleton
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Stapleton is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In St. Vincent & Grenadines it is the 4th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: person from Stapleton, a place name meaning ‘farmstead by a post’.
- IEIreland1 in 8.5K◐
- AUAustralia1 in 9.7K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 18K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈19K ●
- Sources
- 363 ●
- 1 in 217 ◐
across 10 countries
174K records
Official registry-verified
St. Vincent & Grenadines
Meaning & origin●
person from Stapleton, a place name meaning ‘farmstead by a post’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 18,332 | 140K rec. | 1 in 18K | 18K | Stapleton | 363 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 12,825 | 11K rec. | — | listed | Stapleton | 147 |
| AU Australia | #941 | 8,684 | 8K rec. | — | — | Stapleton | 137 |
| CA Canada | — | 4,089 | 3.9K rec. | — | — | Stapleton | 103 |
| IE Ireland | #929 | 1,194 | 1K rec. | — | — | Stapleton | 83 |
| IT Italy | — | 1,056 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Stapleton | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 485 | 411 rec. | — | — | Stapleton | 51 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | #4 | 468△ | 24 rec. | 1 in 217 | 504 | Stapleton | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | 434 | 443 rec. | — | — | Stapleton | 7 |
| PH Philippines | — | 406 | 406 rec. | — | — | Stapleton | 8 |
| EG Egypt | — | 399 | 390 rec. | — | — | Stapleton | 2 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 186 | 96 rec. | 1 in 289 | 186 | — | 15 |
Roughly 18K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 18K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English177K86%
- Spanish5.2K3%
- 4.6K2%
- French2.1K1%
- German1.6K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 176,658 | 86% |
| Spanish | 5,214 | 3% |
| 4,625 | 2% | |
| French | 2,131 | 1% |
| German | 1,594 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Stapleton is also recorded in 4 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 Stapleton (Cumberland, Gloucestershire, Hereford, Leicestershire, Salop, Somerset, North Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire); first attested Randulf de Stapeltuna 1166 P (Yorkshire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A place in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Jean, US actress
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Irish, A Hiberno-Norman family, some branches of which adopted Mac an Ghaill (son of the foreigner)—anglicized Gall and Gaule—as an Irish patronymic : they settled in Cos. Kilkenny and Tipperary and are mainly located there now. MIF See Stacpoole
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1951 | 3 |
| 1961 | 6 |
| 1971 | 4 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1991 | 9 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 6 years between 1921–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Thomas Stapletonb. 1535GBEnglish Catholic controversialist
- Jean Stapletonb. 1923USAmerican actress (1923–2013)
- Maureen Stapletonb. 1925USAmerican actress (1925-2006)
- Oliver Stapletonb. 1948GBEnglish cinematographer
- Frank Stapletonb. 1956IEIrish footballer and manager
- Bill Stapletonb. 1965USAmerican swimmer, Olympic athlete, Pan American Games gold medalist, attorney
- Nicola Stapletonb. 1974GBEnglish actress
- Sullivan Stapletonb. 1977AUAustralian actor (born 1977)
- Chris Stapletonb. 1978USAmerican country musician
- Jacinta Stapletonb. 1979AUAustralian actress
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●
Attested in 33 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 45 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Stapleton?
- We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Stapleton (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Stapleton have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 18 thousand people bear Stapleton in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled stapleton.
- Where is Stapleton most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stapleton is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 217 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Stapleton compared with other names?
- In St. Vincent & Grenadines, Stapleton is the 4th most common surname of 1,182 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Stapleton mean?
- Recorded meaning: person from Stapleton, a place name meaning ‘farmstead by a post’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Stapleton” — the 4th most common surname in St. Vincent & Grenadines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.