Stankus Surname Guide

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Stankus family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

Meaning of the name

The Stankus last name has Polish roots. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “descendant of Stankus, a pet form of Stanislaw (camp, glorious)”.

It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear. The 2010 census count for Stankus in the United States was 1,131, good for rank 22,673.

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