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Stein

in Illinois

There are 1,990 people with the last name "Stein" in Illinois.

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Ranking in Illinois

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Stein 456
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  1. is 452nd most common Baldwin
  2. is 453rd most common Robbins
  3. is 454th most common Boyer
  4. is 455th most common Juarez
  5. is 456th most common Stein
  6. is 457th most common Figueroa
  7. is 458th most common Carey
  8. is 459th most common Cain
  9. is 460th most common Cortez

Most Common First Names for Stein

Michael, David, Robert, James, John, Richard, William, Susan, Kenneth, Edward

Meaning & History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Stein ‘rock’, Middle High German stein, hence a topographic name either for someone who lived on stony ground or for someone who lived by a notable outcrop of rock or by a stone boundary marker or monument. It could also be a metonymic occupational name for a mason or stonecutter, or, among Jews, an ornamental name. This name is widespread throughout central and eastern Europe.

Dutch: from a reduced form of the personal name Augustijn (see Austin).

Norwegian: habitational name from any of ten or more farmsteads, notably in southeastern Norway, so named from Old Norse steinn ‘stone’.

Scottish: from a reduced form of the personal name Steven (see Steen, Steven).

Northern English and Scottish: from the Old Norse personal name Steinn meaning ‘stone’.

Southern English: habitational name from a place named with Old English stǣne ‘stony place’, for example Stein in Sussex or Steane in Northamptonshire.

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