# Stock (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/stock/  
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) | 12,722 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,832 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 24,269 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.9% (12,479 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from the noun stock (“stock, tree stump”). This sense is also found respectively in Dutch and German, and Slavic borrowings of them. Compare Stocker. * Also as an English surname, variant of Stoker. * (Stockton): Clipping of Stockton.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Stock 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) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Stock in the United States, Austria and the United Kingdom.

## People named Stock

- Leonhard Stock, Austrian downhill skier
- Barbara Stock, American actress
- Dennis Stock, American photographer (1928–2010)
- Nigel Stock, British actor (1919-1986)

## Similar surnames

Stack, Stuckey, Stuck, Steck, Stucky, Stec, Stucki, Stucke, Stocks, Stacks, Sheets, Stacy.

## 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.