Stoaks: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Stoaks is a familiar spelling of the English name Stokes. It is a place-based name: “From Stoke, "outlying settlement"”.

• Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.
• Stoaks is listed among the recognised spellings of Stokes.
• Stoaks ranked 90,853 in the 2010 US Census, with 203 people answering to the name.
• Related forms: Stoakes, Stocks and Stoke.

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