# Stamp (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/stamp/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,271 |
| US rank (2010) | 9,884 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 94,389 people |
| Change since 2000 | +6.0% (3,086 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, variant of Stamps, habitational surname of Norman origin from Estampes, earlier name of Étampes. * As a German surname, from Middle Low German stampen (“to crush, pestle”), from Old Saxon *stampōn, from Proto-West Germanic *stampōn, from Proto-Germanic *stampōną.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Stamp in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 85% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 2.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Stamp in the United Kingdom.

## People named Stamp

- Terence Stamp, British actor (1938–2025)

## Similar surnames

Stump, Stamper, Stamps, Stumpf, Stambaugh, Stanhope, Stemple, Stampley, Stanford, Steinberg, Stanfield, Steinbach.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.