Stockings Surname

1,121,821st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 216 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
England
Highest density in:
England

Stockings Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the stocking,' i.e. the little stock, a diminutive of Stock, which see. Curiously enough, the article of dress so called is a diminutive of the same word (v. stocking, Skeat's Dictionary).

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Stockings Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England2111:264,06720,991
Thailand21:35,319,172966,191
Iran11:76,782,524277,718
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Wales11:3,094,53244,023
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England1661:146,84013,053
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States321:1,569,33483,036

Stockings Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the stocking,' i.e. the little stock, a diminutive of Stock, which see. Curiously enough, the article of dress so called is a diminutive of the same word (v. stocking, Skeat's Dictionary).

Edmund del Stocking, Buckinghamshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

1759- Married — John Stocking (Norfolk) and Elizabeth Wright: St. George, Hanover Square.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

Genit., and pl., of Stocking.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

Local. De Stocking. H.R. I cannot find the place.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

Local. From Stoc, Saxon, a place, and ing, low land, a meadow.

An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur

From some local name compounded of Anglo-Saxon ing, a meadow. Stocken is a surname, and De Stocking is found in H.R. See Stock.

Ludus Patronymicus (1868) by Richard Stephen Charnock

Stockings Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Stockings Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Stockings is borne by more people in England than any other country or territory. It may also appear as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Stockings? popularity and diffusion

The surname Stockings is the 1,121,821st most frequently occurring last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 33,738,638 people. This surname is mostly found in Europe, where 98 percent of Stockings live; 98 percent live in Northern Europe and 98 percent live in British Isles.

It is most widely held in England, where it is borne by 211 people, or 1 in 264,067. In England it is most common in: Suffolk, where 31 percent live, Greater London, where 18 percent live and West Yorkshire, where 12 percent live. Excluding England this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Thailand, where 1 percent live and Iran, where 0 percent live.

Stockings Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Stockings has changed through the years. In England the number of people who held the Stockings surname increased 127 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

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Satokangas74218/
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Stiggings671/
Satukangas6372/
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