# Stapleton (surname)

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

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 18,332 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,973 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 16,842 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.6% (17,529 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Stapledon |

## Etymology

From Old English stapol (“post, pillar”) + tūn (“enclsoure; settlement, town”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Stapleton 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) | 9.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Stapleton in the United States and Australia.

## People named Stapleton

- Maureen Stapleton, American actress (1925-2006)
- Jean Stapleton, American actress (1923–2013)
- Chris Stapleton, American country musician
- Sullivan Stapleton, Australian actor (born 1977)
- Tim Stapleton, American ice hockey player
- Jacinta Stapleton, Australian actress

## Similar surnames

Staples, Stabile, Stabler, Stapley, Stovall, Stubblefield, Stiffler, Stoffel, Stiefel, Stfleur.

## 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.