# Stark (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/stark/  
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 | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 41,735 |
| US rank (2010) | 827 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 7,398 people |
| Change since 2000 | -0.3% (41,863 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /stɑɹk/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Scottish and English surname, from the adjective stark. * As a Jewish, German, and Swedish surname, from stark (“strong”), related to the above. This surname also appears in Czech and Slovak as Štark.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Stark 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) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.7% |
| Two or more races | 1.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Stark in the United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Great Britain.

## People named Stark

- Don Stark, American actor
- Harold Rainsford Stark, American admiral (1880-1972)
- Pete Stark, American politician (1931-2020)
- Jonathan Stark, American tennis player
- Archie Stark, American soccer player (1897-1985)
- Rodney Stark, American sociologist of religion (1934–2022)
- Graham Stark, British comedian, actor, writer and director (1922-2013)
- Grace Stark, American athletics competitor
- Oliver Stark, British actor
- John Stark, American Revolutionary War general from New Hampshire
- Koo Stark, American film actress and photographer
- Ray Stark, American film producer (1915-2004)

and 5 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Starkey, Stork, Starke, Struck, Strack, Straka, Strock, Storck, Strick, Starck, Sterk, Starks.

## 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.