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    The surname Stave

    An occupational surname, carried by 531 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S310

    Stave: #41,038 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Stave #41,038, 531 people Stave: #41,038 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Stave #41,038, 531 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stave is more common than 74.7% of them.

    Origin

    Various origins: * Borrowed from North German Stave, an occupational surname for a judge or church official, from Middle Low German Staf (“staff”). * Borrowed from Norwegian Stave, a habitational surname from five farmsteads in the country. * Americanized form of Polish Staw, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.

    Stave is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 531 people named Stave in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 581,442 Americans. That is down 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 565.

    #41,038
    rank among US surnames
    531
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -6%
    change since 2000 (was #37,145)

    Who is named Stave

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

    90% of people named Stave identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Stave

    Stave has the Soundex code S310, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S310.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Stave come from?
    Various origins: * Borrowed from North German Stave, an occupational surname for a judge or church official, from Middle Low German Staf (“staff”). * Borrowed from Norwegian Stave, a habitational surname from five farmsteads in the country. * Americanized form of Polish Staw, a Jewish Ashkenazi…
    How common is the surname Stave?
    531 people in the United States had the surname Stave in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 581,442 Americans. It ranked 41,038th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Stave?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Stave identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Stave?
    Stave is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Stave getting more or less common?
    Less common. 565 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 531 in 2010, down 6.0%.