The Stockman surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,226 people carried this name — #5,583 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 47,400 people counted. That is up 4% from 5,966 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 480 people named Stockman live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in East Flanders.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Ireland’s birth registers, 1890
Ireland registered 7 births for the Stockman name in 1890.
Most were registered in Ulster. By the Registrar-General’s own method — births multiplied by 44.38 — that is about 300 people bearing the name in Ireland at the time.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born, 1890
Registrar-General for Ireland, «Special Report on Surnames in Ireland» (R. E. Matheson, 1894), births index of 1890 — public domain.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 86 people named Stockman.
8 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Nord.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
223 people named Stockman is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Stockman in American newspapers,
1867–1923.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 144,131 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Stockman,
with a public archive behind them.
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David Stockman 1879–1951 · painter -
Lowell Stockman 1901–1962 · politician -
Alan C. Stockman d. 2010 · economist
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Sven Stockman d. 1959 · civil servant
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Ralph Stockman 1861–1946 · university teacher
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Ralph Stockman 1861–1946 · university teacher
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Stockman.
- Still 12,354 · U.S. census
- Stiller 3,016 · U.S. census
- Stirn 386 · U.S. census
- Stocco 257 · U.S. census
- Stock 12,722 · U.S. census
- Stocker 6,561 · U.S. census
- Stoeckel 894 · U.S. census
- Stoeckle 386 · U.S. census
- Stoecklin 213 · U.S. census
- Stoeffler 285 · U.S. census
- Stoehr 1,694 · U.S. census
- Stoessel 401 · U.S. census
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