Staton
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Staton is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 18th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Derbys; also Lancs. locative name from Stathern (Leics).
- USUnited States1 in 23K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 39K
- CACanada1 in 55K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14K ●
- Sources
- 333 ●
- 1 in 23K ◐
across 4 countries
129K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
Main GB Location (1881): Derbys; also Lancs. locative name from Stathern (Leics).
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 14,413 | 113K rec. | 1 in 23K | 14K | Staton | 333 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 5,984 | 5.7K rec. | — | — | Staton | 93 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,371 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Staton | 36 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,265 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Staton | 49 |
| DE Germany | — | 460 | 463 rec. | — | — | Staton | 24 |
| IT Italy | — | 450 | 471 rec. | — | — | Staton | 8 |
| LR Liberia | #18 | 395 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Staton | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | 276 | 280 rec. | — | — | Staton | 4 |
| RU Russia | — | 248 | 266 rec. | — | — | Staton | 8 |
| IL Israel | — | 211 | 214 rec. | — | — | Staton | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 197 | 199 rec. | — | — | Staton | 4 |
| KR South Korea | #876 | 98 | 98 rec. | — | — | Staton | 3 |
Roughly 14K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 23K). 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●
- English124K85%
- 5.1K3%
- Spanish4.5K3%
- Hebrew2.4K2%
- German9971%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 124,016 | 85% |
| 5,078 | 3% | |
| Spanish | 4,501 | 3% |
| Hebrew | 2,422 | 2% |
| German | 997 | 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●
Staton is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Esperanto, accusative singular of stato
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1924 | 5 |
| 1971 | 8 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1992 | 7 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2015 | 6 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 10 |
| 2025 | 10 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 18 years between 1924–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Frank Statonb. 1870GBEnglish footballer (1870-1945)
- Jim Statonb. 1927USAmerican football player (1927-1993)
- Dakota Statonb. 1930USAmerican jazz vocalist (1930-2007)
- Candi Statonb. 1940USAmerican singer–songwriter (born 1940)
- Mick Statonb. 1940USMember of the United States House of Representatives, 1981-1983
- Joe Statonb. 1948USillustrator
- Cecil Statonb. 1958USAmerican politician and educator
- Matthew Bomerb. 1977USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Aaron Statonb. 1980USAmerican actor
- Rebekah Statonb. 1981GBEnglish actor
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 16 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,514 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,388 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 14K | #2,604 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 210 | #34,742 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 24 | #34,742 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 7 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 31 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Staton?
- We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Staton (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Staton have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 14 thousand people bear Staton in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled staton.
- How common is Staton compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Staton is the 18th most common surname of 6,092 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Staton mean?
- Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Derbys; also Lancs. locative name from Stathern (Leics).
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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, “Staton” — the 18th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.