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    The surname Stamp

    A place surname, carried by 3,271 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S351

    Stamp: #9,884 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Stamp #9,884, 3,271 people Stamp: #9,884 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Stamp #9,884, 3,271 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stamp is more common than 93.9% of them.

    Origin

    * 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.

    Stamp is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,271 people named Stamp in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 94,389 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,086.

    #9,884
    rank among US surnames
    3,271
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6%
    change since 2000 (was #9,662)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,877Portis3,27494,302
    #9,879Soltis3,27394,331
    #9,881Ugarte3,27294,360
    #9,884Blakemore3,27194,389
    #9,890Reeser3,27094,418

    Who is named Stamp

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

    85% of people named Stamp identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

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

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Stamps

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Terence Stamp
      British actor (1938–2025)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Stamp

    Stamp has the Soundex code S351, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S351.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Stamp come from?
    * 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.
    How common is the surname Stamp?
    3,271 people in the United States had the surname Stamp in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 94,389 Americans. It ranked 9,884th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Stamp?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Stamp identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Stamp?
    Terence Stamp, British actor (1938–2025).
    Where is the surname Stamp most common?
    Wikidata records people named Stamp in the United Kingdom.
    What type of surname is Stamp?
    Stamp is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Stamp getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,086 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,271 in 2010, up 6.0%.