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Stein

in Massachusetts

There are 789 people with the last name "Stein" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

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Stein 936
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  1. is 932nd most common Osborne
  2. is 933rd most common Sylvester
  3. is 934th most common Tang
  4. is 935th most common Brewer
  5. is 936th most common Stein
  6. is 937th most common Whelan
  7. is 938th most common Ortega
  8. is 939th most common Bacon
  9. is 940th most common Mckinnon

Most Common First Names for Stein

Robert, David, Michael, Mark, Judith, Gary, Andrew, Jonathan, Richard, Steven

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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