# Stoney (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/stoney/  
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) | 1,397 |
| US rank (2010) | 19,364 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 221,006 people |
| Change since 2000 | +8.0% (1,293 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Stoney 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) | 56% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 36% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.6% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 2.9% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Stoney in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

## People named Stoney

- George Johnstone Stoney, Anglo-Irish physicist (1826-1911)
- Edith Anne Stoney, Anglo-Irish medical physicist

## Similar surnames

Stone, Stine, Stamey, Sutton, Stein, Steen, Seaton, Stamm, Sitton, 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.