Starks (surname)

Starks is an English surname. It comes as a variant of the surname Stark.^[1]^[2] The added -s has been attributed to "post-medieval" linguistic excrescence,^[1]^[2] however it has also been viewed as denoting descent from a possessive "Stark's".^[3] Alternatively, Starks can be a reduced form of Starkes.^[4]

Notable people with the surname include

Ahmad Starks (born 1992), American basketball player
Anthony Starks (1873–1952), English rugby footballer
Argalus Starks (1804–1870), American politician
Bob Starks (born 1945), American politician
Carol Starks, British actress
Catana Starks (1944–2020), American athletics coach
Kay Starr (born Catherine Laverne Starks) (1922–2016), American singer
Clifford Starks (born 1981), American mixed martial artist
Derrick Starks (born 1970), American gospel musician
Duane Starks (born 1974), American football player
Edwin Chapin Starks (1867–1932), American ichthyologist
Geoffrey Starks, American lawyer
Howard Starks (1929–2003), American poet
Howard Starks (Canadian football) (born 1944), Canadian football player
James Starks (born 1986), American football player
Javontae Starks (born 1989), American boxer
Jim Starks (1906–?), American baseball player
John J. Starks (1872–1944), American college administrator
John "Jabo" Starks (1938–2018), American musician
John Starks (basketball) (born 1965), American basketball player
Kyle Starks, American comic artist
Laura Starks, American economist
Llewellyn Starks (born 1967), American long jumper
Malaki Starks (born 2003), American football player
Marcelous Starks (born 1952), American basketball player
Markel Starks (born 1991), American basketball player
Marshall Starks (1939–2016), American football player
Max Starks (born 1982), American football player
Otis Starks (1897–1965), American baseball player
P. J. Starks (born 1982), American filmmaker
Randy Starks (born 1983), American football player and coach
Ricky Starks (born 1994), American wrestler
Sabrina Starks (born 2000), American volleyball player
Samuel W. Starks (1866–1908), American librarian
Scott Starks (born 1983), American football player
Steve Starks, American businessman
Takia Starks (born 1986), American basketball player
Timothy Starks (born 1963), American football player
Timothy Starks (actor) (born 1969), American actor
TJ Starks (born 1998), American basketball player
Tony Starks (born 1970), pseudonym of American rapper Ghostface Killah
Tricia Starks, American historian
Yvonne Starks Wilson (1929–2019), American politician

References

1 2 Dictionary of American family names (Second ed.). Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York: Oxford University Press. 2022. ISBN 9780190245122.
1 2 The Oxford dictionary of family names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2016. ISBN 9780191781797.
↑ Harrison, Henry (1918). Surnames of the United Kingdom, vol. 2. London: The Morland Press. p. 186.
↑ The concise Oxford dictionary of family names in Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. ISBN 9780191939877.

[Ox_Am_Dict-1] 1 2 Dictionary of American family names (Second ed.). Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York: Oxford University Press. 2022. ISBN 9780190245122.

[Ox_brit-2] 1 2 The Oxford dictionary of family names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2016. ISBN 9780191781797.

[3] Harrison, Henry (1918). Surnames of the United Kingdom, vol. 2. London: The Morland Press. p. 186.

[ConukOxDi-4] The concise Oxford dictionary of family names in Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. ISBN 9780191939877.

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Notable people with the surname include

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