Stocking is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Annie Stocking Boyce (1880–1973), née Stocking, American Presbyterian missionary teacher in Iran, founder and editor of a Persian-language women's journal Anthony Stocking (born 1951), British lightweight rower Barbara Stocking (born 1951), British civil servant Dave Stocking, British Trotskyist Dimies T. Stocking Denison (1852–1940), née Stocking, American businesswoman, philanthropist and clubwoman George W. Stocking Sr. (1892–1975), American economist George W. Stocking Jr. (1928–2013), American anthropologist, son of the above Hannah Stocking (born 1992), American internet personality Hobart Stocking (1846–1920), American politician Marion Kingston Stocking (1922–2009), American literary scholar, educator, editor, book reviewer, advocate for the arts, memoirist, and environmentalist May Stocking Knaggs (1847–1915), née Stocking, American suffragist
See also Stockings (surname)