Stoddart Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

A Stoddart ancestor may well appear as Stoddard in earlier records. The family name meaning is “Horse keeper”, the same as for Stoddard.

• Only a small detail separates the spellings: Stoddart has “t” where Stoddard has “d”.
• Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms.
• About 1,258 people in the United States were recorded as Stoddart in 2010, placing it 20,937 on the national list.
• The same family of names includes Stoddert and Stothard.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Stoddard and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Stoddart surname pack.