Last Name STINSON

Summary/Contribute


Meaning The son of Stephen or Steven, Steven-son, corrupted to Stinson or Stimson. The 'p' in Stimpson is intrusive and follows 'n,' as in Simpson, Thompson, or Hampson.
Origin English, Jewish, Irish

Rank 1,254 (2000 US census) 1,048 (1990 US census)
Count 25,694 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 73.07%, or 18775 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 23.21%, or 5964 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.39%, or 100 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.52%, or 134 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.53%, or 393 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.28%, or 329 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Longest baby names

The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte


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