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    The surname Stallings

    A surname, carried by 17,269 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S345

    Stallings: #2,093 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Stallings #2,093, 17,269 people Stallings: #2,093 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Stallings #2,093, 17,269 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stallings is more common than 98.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 17,269 people named Stallings in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 17,879 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 16,819.

    #2,093
    rank among US surnames
    17,269
    people in 2010
    5.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.7%
    change since 2000 (was #1,968)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,084Cavazos17,36117,784
    #2,085Burrows17,35517,790
    #2,086Busch17,35417,791
    #2,087Burroughs17,33617,810
    #2,088Schuster17,32517,821
    #2,089Bagley17,32417,822
    #2,090Montero17,31417,832

    Who is named Stallings

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    71% of people named Stallings identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 71%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 24%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Stallingss

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • A. E. Stallings
      American poet, translator, and essayist (born 1968)
    • Richard H. Stallings
      American politician, 1940–2025
    • Laurence Stallings
      American writer (1894–1968)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Stallings

    Stallings has the Soundex code S345, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S345.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Stallings?
    17,269 people in the United States had the surname Stallings in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,879 Americans. It ranked 2,093rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Stallings?
    In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Stallings identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Stallings?
    A. E. Stallings, American poet, translator, and essayist (born 1968), followed by Richard H. Stallings.
    Where is the surname Stallings most common?
    Wikidata records people named Stallings in the United States.
    Is the surname Stallings getting more or less common?
    More common. 16,819 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,269 in 2010, up 2.7%.