as a Last Name
- 16,986
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Stapleton
Meaning & Origins
Irish, of English origin: habitational name from any of various places in England, for example in Cumbria, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Shropshire, Somerset, and North Yorkshire, so named from Old English stapol ‘post’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
| 1,825th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 16,986
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Stapleton per capita
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