Last Name STODDARD

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Meaning	The stud-herd. Also possibly the same as Stot-herd. With the sharpened forms Stodart and Stoddart. The stot-herd, one who tended stots, i.e. bullocks. the bullock-herd. Concerning the origin of this name there is a tradition, that the first of the family came over with William the Conqueror, as standard-bearer to Viscompte De Pulesdon, a noble Norman, and that the name is derived from the office of a standard-bearer, and was anciently written 'De La Standard,' corrupted to 'Stodard' or 'Stodart.'

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	2,352 (2000 US census)	2,249 (1990 US census)

Count	14,096 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

93.18%, or 13135 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
3.25%, or 458 total occurrences, as black,
0.38%, or 54 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.26%, or 37 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.28%, or 180 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.65%, or 233 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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