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Stein

in the US

There are 38,386 people with the last name "Stein" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Stein 656
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  1. is 652nd most common Trujillo
  2. is 653rd most common Ware
  3. is 654th most common Vance
  4. is 655th most common Beasley
  5. is 656th most common Stein
  6. is 657th most common Carrillo
  7. is 658th most common Berger
  8. is 659th most common Prince
  9. is 660th most common Small

Most Common First Names for Stein

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

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.

Recent Searches for "Stein" in the US

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