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Stein

in Iowa

There are 385 people with the last name "Stein" in Iowa.

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Ranking in Iowa

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Stein 721
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  1. is 717th most common Hatfield
  2. is 718th most common Hoskins
  3. is 719th most common Metzger
  4. is 720th most common Sellers
  5. is 721st most common Stein
  6. is 722nd most common Fulton
  7. is 723rd most common Kendall
  8. is 724th most common Mulder
  9. is 725th most common Dewitt

Most Common First Names for Stein

Michael, David, Mary, Ronald, Jeffrey, Julie, Jeff, Joan, Karen, Laura

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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