Explore the Family Name Stockmaster

The meaning of Stockmaster

Americanized form of German Stockmeister: occupational name for a prison guard, from Middle High German stoc ‘tree stump, stick; prison’ + meister ‘master’. The surname Stockmeister is very rare in Germany.

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How common is the last name Stockmaster in the United States?

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census data, the surname Stockmaster has seen a slight decrease in popularity over the first decade of the 21st century. In 2000, it was ranked the 60,706th most popular surname in the United States. However, by 2010, it dropped slightly to rank 61,745, a change of -1.71%. Despite this drop in rank, the count of people with the surname Stockmaster actually increased from 310 in 2000 to 325 in 2010, a rise of 4.84%. The proportion per 100k remained steady at 0.11 for both census years.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#60,706	#61,745	-1.71%
Count	310	325	4.84%
Proportion per 100k	0.11	0.11	0%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Stockmaster

In terms of ethnicity, according to the Decennial U.S. Census data, the majority of people with the surname Stockmaster identified as White in both 2000 and 2010, although there was a slight decrease from 95.16% to 91.08%. There was no reported change in those identifying as Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, or American Indian and Alaskan Native. Notably, there was an increase in the percentage identifying as Hispanic, rising from 2.90% in 2000 to 4.62% in 2010, a change of 59.31%. Additionally, in 2010, 4% of Stockmasters identified as belonging to two or more ethnicities; this classification was not present in the 2000 data.

	2000	2010	Change
White	95.16%	91.08%	-4.29%
Hispanic	2.9%	4.62%	59.31%
Two or More Races	0%	4%	0%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%