Given name & surname
Stearns
“a serious-minded man; one who is strict”
Stearns is a variant of Sterne. One English interpretation is “a serious-minded man; one who is strict.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Stearns is a variant of Sterne. One English interpretation is “a serious-minded man; one who is strict.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Stearns is a variant of Sterne. An origin associated with Sterne is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Stearns through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1917. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 13,938 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Stearns’s family of names
Stearns has a related form in Sterne.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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