Stoke Last Name Facts and Heraldry

Stoke belongs to the Stokes family of names, which has English roots. It is a place-based name: “From Stoke, "outlying settlement"”.

Spelling and variants

Without the “s” of Stokes, Stoke is a simpler written form of the same name. Related forms: Stoakes, Stoaks and Stocks.

How common is Stoke?

Stoke ranked 25,620 in the 2010 US Census, with 963 people answering to the name. That puts it among the top 50,000 US surnames. Stoke sounds close to Stock, so it can help to search both.

Stoke coat of arms

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

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