Find out how popular the last name Stamos is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Stamos.

Stamos, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Stamos surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Stamos in America

Stamos is the 27898th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Stamos surname appeared 860 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Stamos.

We can also compare 2010 data for Stamos to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Stamos

The surname Stamos has its origins in Greece, emerging sometime around the 12th century. It is derived from the Greek word "stamos," meaning "mouth" or "opening," suggesting that the name may have originally referred to someone who lived near a notable geographic feature like a valley or pass.

One of the earliest recorded uses of the name can be found in a 13th-century manuscript from the Greek island of Crete, which mentions a man named Nikolaos Stamos. This suggests that the name was already established in certain regions of Greece by that time.

In the 15th century, the name appears in records from the Venetian-held Ionian Islands, where a merchant named Georgios Stamos is mentioned in a trade document from the city of Corfu. This indicates that individuals with the Stamos surname had begun to spread across the Greek archipelago.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, the name can be found in various records from mainland Greece, particularly in the regions of Thessaly and Epirus. A notable example is Ioannis Stamos, a scholar and physician who lived in the city of Ioannina in the late 16th century.

As the Greek diaspora expanded in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Stamos surname began to appear in various parts of the world. One notable figure was Konstantinos Stamos, a Greek revolutionary who fought against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence (1821-1832).

In the 20th century, several individuals with the Stamos surname gained prominence in various fields. These include the American actor John Stamos (born 1963), the Greek painter Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997), and the Greek-American businessman and philanthropist George D. Stamos (1915-2015).

Overall, the surname Stamos has a rich history that can be traced back to medieval Greece, and it has since been carried by individuals across the globe, reflecting the dispersal of the Greek diaspora over the centuries.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Stamos

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Stamos.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Stamos was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Stamos has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Stamos was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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