The Stallings surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 17,269 people carried this name — #2,093 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 17,100 people counted. That is up 3% from 16,819 in 2000.

Look up another surname

Share

In the first U.S. census, 1790

42 families named Stallings, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 235 people lived in those households, 5.6 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 3 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

North Carolina 27
Virginia 7
Maryland 6
South Carolina 2

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 263 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Stallings in American newspapers,
1903.

Newspaper page from The Starkville News carrying the name Stallings
The Starkville News 1903-03-13
Newspaper page from The Starkville News carrying the name Stallings
The Starkville News 1903-03-06
Newspaper page from The Starkville News carrying the name Stallings
The Starkville News 1903-02-27

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,069,445 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Stallings in Australian newspapers,
1920s–1970s.

120 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Stallings. The most, 62, date from the 1930s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Western Australia, at 2.5 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 29
Western Australia 29
Queensland 18
South Australia 18
ACT (Canberra) 10
Victoria 10
Tasmania 6

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Stallings.

Who carried it

People named Stallings,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Jesse F. Stallings
    Jesse F. Stallings 1856–1928 · lawyer
  • George Stallings
    George Stallings 1867–1929 · baseball player
  • Laurence Stallings
    Laurence Stallings 1894–1968 · screenwriter
  • Udell H. Stallings
    Udell H. Stallings 1899–1980 · American football player
  • Mary S. Coleman
    Mary S. Coleman 1914–2001 · judge
  • Vernon Stallings 1891–1963 · screenwriter

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Stallings,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States879 records

879 records of the Stallings name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 618
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 202
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 30
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 10
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 10
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 5
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 3
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Harry E. Stallings

    Born 1918 in Washington. Enlisted 1941 at Los Angeles, California; pressman. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1997, buried at San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Ronald Clark Stallings

    Born 1947; from Louisville, Kentucky. U.S. Army, medical specialist; killed in action 1967 in Binh Long, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Bernhard Stallings

    Arrived at New York in 1860 aboard the Orpheus from Bremerhaven, aged 16; farmer. From Germany.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 879 records for Stallings in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Nearby in the index

Surnames next to Stallings.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Stallings is.
A volume says what happened to it.

Every page in the index is free and stays free. The Heritage Volume is the long form: the full paper trail, the arms, the crossing — bound, and yours.

See the Stallings volume
Scroll to Top