Skip to content

The surname Stam

A surname, carried by 1,495 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S350

Stam: #18,486 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Stam #18,486, 1,495 people Stam: #18,486 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Stam #18,486, 1,495 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stam is more common than 88.6% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,495 people named Stam in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 206,519 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,410.

#18,486
rank among US surnames
1,495
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+6%
change since 2000 (was #18,196)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#18,478Melnyk1,496206,381
#18,486Newhall1,495206,519

Who is named Stam

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

92% of people named Stam identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 92%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Stam

Stam has the Soundex code S350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S350.

Questions

How common is the surname Stam?
1,495 people in the United States had the surname Stam in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 206,519 Americans. It ranked 18,486th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Stam?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Stam identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Stam getting more or less common?
More common. 1,410 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,495 in 2010, up 6.0%.