Stocks
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Stocks is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Liberia it is the 46th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Welsh, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a different form of Stock.
- AUAustralia1 in 27K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 29K
- USUnited States1 in 71K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.9K ●
- Sources
- 285 ●
- 1 in 71K ◐
across 8 countries
55K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
a different form of Stock.
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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | 8,126 | 6.9K rec. | — | — | Stocks | 136 |
| US United States | — | 4,708 | 38K rec. | 1 in 71K | 4.7K | Stocks | 285 |
| AU Australia | — | 3,176 | 3K rec. | — | — | Stocks | 105 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,032 | 948 rec. | — | — | Stocks | 57 |
| CA Canada | — | 954 | 965 rec. | — | — | Stocks | 63 |
| SG Singapore | — | 280 | 294 rec. | — | — | Stocks | 5 |
| IT Italy | — | 265 | 279 rec. | — | — | Stocks | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 263 | 269 rec. | — | — | Stocks | 25 |
| LR Liberia | #46 | 250 | 847 rec. | — | — | Stocks | 2 |
| RU Russia | — | 128 | 148 rec. | — | — | Stocks | 9 |
| AR Argentina | — | 118 | 115 rec. | — | — | Stocks | 15 |
| BR Brazil | — | 117 | 98 rec. | — | — | Stocks | 13 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English51K80%
- Welsh4.5K7%
- Spanish1.5K2%
- German1.3K2%
- 9712%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 50,700 | 80% |
| Welsh | 4,544 | 7% |
| Spanish | 1,453 | 2% |
| German | 1,334 | 2% |
| 971 | 2% |
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●
Stocks is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of stock
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, genitive singular of Stock
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●
- Lumb Stocksb. 1812GBEnglish engraver (1812–1892)
- John Ellerton Stocksb. 1822GBBritish botanist (1822–1854)
- Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocksb. 1891GBBritish writer and college principal (1891-1975)
- Margaret Stocksb. 1895GBBritish badminton and tennis player (1895–1985)
- Christian Stocksb. 1947DEGerman regional historian
- Brett Stocksb. 1963AUAustralian swimmer
- Alan Stocksb. 1967actor
- Alexander Stocksb. 1979SESwedish actor
- Tamara Stocksb. 1979USAmerican basketball player, center
- Sheila StocksGBBritish footballer
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 22 sources across 12 countries.
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 · 22 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Stocks?
- We estimate roughly 4.9 thousand people bear Stocks (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Stocks have the most bearers?
- Stocks is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled stocks.
- How common is Stocks compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Stocks is the 46th most common surname of 6,092 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Stocks mean?
- Recorded meaning: a different form of Stock.
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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, “Stocks” — the 46th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.