How common is the surname Stocks?

4,708 people in the United States had the surname Stocks in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,579 Americans. It ranked 7,107th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Stocks getting more or less common?

More common. 4,480 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,708 in 2010, up 5.1%.

The surname Stocks

A surname, carried by 4,708 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S320

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stocks is more common than 95.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,708 people named Stocks in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 65,579 Americans. That is up 5.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,480.

#7,107

rank among US surnames

4,708

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+5.1%

change since 2000 (was #6,905)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,103	Tingle	4,712	65,523
#7,104	Cataldo	4,711	65,537
#7,106	McCaslin	4,709	65,565
#7,107	Stocks	4,708	65,579

Who is named Stocks

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

80% of people named Stocks identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 80%
Black (not Hispanic) 15%
Two or more races 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Stocks

Stocks has the Soundex code S320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S320.

Questions

How common is the surname Stocks?: 4,708 people in the United States had the surname Stocks in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,579 Americans. It ranked 7,107th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Stocks?: In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Stocks identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Stocks getting more or less common?: More common. 4,480 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,708 in 2010, up 5.1%.