# Stone (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/stone/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

An English occupational and habitational surname from Old English, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from Old English stan.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 153,329 |
| US rank (2010) | 178 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 2,014 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.4% (149,802 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /stoʊ̯n/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From stone. Doublet of Steen and Stein.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Stone 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) | 86% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 8.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Stone in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Poland and the Kingdom of Great Britain.

## People named Stone

- Sharon Stone, American actress (born 1958)
- Oliver Stone, American film director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1946)
- Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Memorial Prize winner (1913-1991)
- Matt Stone, American actor, animator and filmmaker (born 1971)
- Jennifer Stone, American actress and registered nurse (born 1993)
- Irving Stone, American writer (1903–1989)
- Lucy Stone, American abolitionist and suffragist (1818-1893)
- Sean Stone, American actor, director
- Lewis Stone, American actor (1879–1953)
- Biz Stone, American blogger; co-founder of Twitter
- Roger Stone, American political consultant and lobbyist (born 1952)
- Milburn Stone, actor (1904–1980)

and 59 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Sutton, Steen, Stine, Seaton, Sitton, Stoney, Stein, Stamm, Stamey, Sedano, Sweeten, Sidney.

## 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.