as a Last Name
- 12,662
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Stockton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of the places, for example in Cheshire, County Durham, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and North and West Yorkshire, so called from Old English stocc ‘tree trunk’ or stoc ‘dependent settlement’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. It is not possible to distinguish between the two first elements on the basis of early forms.
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Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 12,662
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Oklahoma
- has the most people named Stockton per capita
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