The surname Stoney
A surname, carried by 1,397 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S350
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,397 people named Stoney in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 221,006 Americans. That is up 8.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,293.
Who is named Stoney
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
56% of people named Stoney identified as white (not Hispanic), 36% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- White (not Hispanic) 56%
- Black (not Hispanic) 36%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 2.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Famous Stoneys
2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first
- George Johnstone StoneyAnglo-Irish physicist (1826-1911)
- Edith Anne StoneyAnglo-Irish medical physicist, 1869–1938
Notable Stoneys come mostly from Ireland (1) and the United Kingdom (1).
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Stoney has the Soundex code S350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S350.
Questions
- How common is the surname Stoney?
- 1,397 people in the United States had the surname Stoney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,006 Americans. It ranked 19,364th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Stoney?
- In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Stoney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 36% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Who is the most famous person named Stoney?
- George Johnstone Stoney, Anglo-Irish physicist (1826-1911), followed by Edith Anne Stoney.
- Where is the surname Stoney most common?
- Wikidata records people named Stoney in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
- Is the surname Stoney getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,293 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,397 in 2010, up 8.0%.