The English surname Stockings is a topographic name from the Middle English term  stocking meaning “ground cleared of stumps.” The earliest known recording of this surname is that of Edmund del Stocking of the county of Buckinghamshire in the Hundred Rolls of landowners in 1273. Other recordings include John Stockings, married at St James Clerkenwell, on May 15th 1734, and John Stocking of Norfolk, who was married to Elizabeth Wright, at St Georges chapel, Hanover Square, Westminster, on August 6th 1759.