# Stokes (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/stokes/  
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) | 61,639 |
| US rank (2010) | 542 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 5,009 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.0% (58,687 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Stokes 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) | 58% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 36% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 2.4% |

## Where

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

## People named Stokes

- Marianne Stokes, Austrian artist (1855-1927)
- Chase Stokes, American actor (born 1992)
- Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (1933–1970)
- Jarnell Stokes, American basketball player (born 1994)
- Louis Stokes, American politician (1925-2015)
- Marion Stokes, American librarian and archivist (1929–2012)
- Constance Stokes, Australian painter (1906-1991)
- Adrian Scott Stokes, British artist (1854-1935)
- Frank Stokes, American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel (1888–1955)
- Montfort Stokes, American politician (1762-1842)
- Shelly Stokes, American softball player
- Greg Stokes, American basketball player (born 1963)

## Similar surnames

Stocks, Stacks, Stukes, Stackhouse, Sedgwick, Stachowiak, Szatkowski, Stasiak, Staszak.

## 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.