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    The surname Stoneham

    An English place surname, carried by 718 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S355

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stoneham is more common than 80.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Middle English Stonham, from Old English stān + hām. By surface analysis, stone + home.

    Stoneham is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 718 people named Stoneham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 430,008 Americans. That is up 6.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 677.

    #32,123
    rank among US surnames
    718
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.1%
    change since 2000 (was #32,129)

    Who is named Stoneham

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

    70% of people named Stoneham identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 70%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 22%
    • Two or more races 3.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Stonham
    • Stanham

    Surnames that sound like Stoneham

    Stoneham has the Soundex code S355, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S355.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Stoneham come from?
    From Middle English Stonham, from Old English stān + hām. By surface analysis, stone + home.
    How common is the surname Stoneham?
    718 people in the United States had the surname Stoneham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 430,008 Americans. It ranked 32,123rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Stoneham?
    In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Stoneham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Stoneham?
    Stoneham is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Stoneham getting more or less common?
    More common. 677 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 718 in 2010, up 6.1%.
    What are other spellings of Stoneham?
    Stonham and Stanham.