Starks Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Arms linked to Stark and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Meaning of the name

Spellings drift, and Starks is where Stark drifted for some families. The name is generally explained as “The strong, severe man”.

Starks adds a patronymic ending to Stark, meaning ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The same family of names includes Starck, Starke and Starker. Starks ranked 1,782 in the 2010 US Census, with 20,130 people answering to the name. That puts it inside the top 2,500 US surnames.

Get the complete Starks report, with a museum-style coat of arms.