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Stein

in Pennsylvania

There are 2,533 people with the last name "Stein" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Stein 337
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  1. is 333rd most common Mann
  2. is 334th most common Gill
  3. is 335th most common Park
  4. is 336th most common Higgins
  5. is 337th most common Stein
  6. is 338th most common Banks
  7. is 339th most common Sutton
  8. is 340th most common Holland
  9. is 341st most common Flynn

Most Common First Names for Stein

Robert, David, William, John, Richard, Charles, Michael, Mary, James, Joseph

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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