How common is the surname Stark?

41,735 people in the United States had the surname Stark in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 7,398 Americans. It ranked 827th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Stark?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Stark identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Stark?

Don Stark, American actor, followed by Harold Rainsford Stark.

Where is the surname Stark most common?

Wikidata records people named Stark in the United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom and 1 other country.

How do you pronounce Stark?

Stark is /stɑɹk/, one syllable.

Is the surname Stark getting more or less common?

Less common. 41,863 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 41,735 in 2010, down 0.3%.

The surname Stark

A surname, carried by 41,735 people in the United States.

Pronounced /stɑɹk/ 1 syllable Soundex S362

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stark is more common than 99.5% of them.

Origin

* 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.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 41,735 people named Stark in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 7,398 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 41,863.

#827

rank among US surnames

41,735

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

-0.3%

change since 2000 (was #751)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#818	Bradshaw	42,465	7,271
#819	McIntosh	42,379	7,285
#820	Howe	42,265	7,305
#821	Livingston	42,103	7,333
#822	Frost	42,015	7,348
#823	Glass	41,802	7,386
#824	Morse	41,774	7,391

Who is named Stark

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

92% of people named Stark identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Starks

17 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Don Stark
American actor, born 1954
Harold Rainsford Stark
American admiral (1880-1972)
Pete Stark
American politician (1931-2020)
Jonathan Stark
American tennis player, born 1971
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, born 2001
Oliver Stark
British actor, born 1991
John Stark
American Revolutionary War general from New Hampshire, 1728–1822
Koo Stark
American film actress and photographer, born 1956
Ray Stark
American film producer (1915-2004)

Notable Starks come mostly from the United States (14), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Stark

Stark has the Soundex code S362, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S362.

Questions

Where does the surname Stark come from?: * 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.
How common is the surname Stark?: 41,735 people in the United States had the surname Stark in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 7,398 Americans. It ranked 827th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Stark?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Stark identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Stark?: Don Stark, American actor, followed by Harold Rainsford Stark.
Where is the surname Stark most common?: Wikidata records people named Stark in the United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom and 1 other country.
How do you pronounce Stark?: Stark is /stɑɹk/, one syllable.
Is the surname Stark getting more or less common?: Less common. 41,863 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 41,735 in 2010, down 0.3%.