Stein Surname
Approximately 182,977 people bear this surname
Stein Surname Definition:
Syncopated farms of Steven, which see. Found in Fife, the Lothians, Ayrshire and Roxburghshire. Alan Steyn was a monk of Kilwinning Abbey, 1557. John Steyne was burgess freeman of Glasgow in 1575, and James Stein in 1583 (Burgesses). As forename: Steyn Tran in Irvine, 1450 (Irvine, I, 45), and Steyne of Wod, voter in Monkland, 1519 (Simon, 45).
Read More About This SurnameStein Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 75,606 | 1:1,065 | 73 |
| United States | 66,919 | 1:5,416 | 624 |
| Brazil | 12,846 | 1:16,665 | 835 |
| Israel | 4,558 | 1:1,877 | 183 |
| Canada | 3,450 | 1:10,680 | 1,604 |
| France | 3,166 | 1:20,980 | 2,441 |
| Australia | 2,069 | 1:13,048 | 1,884 |
| England | 1,455 | 1:38,294 | 4,980 |
| South Africa | 1,135 | 1:47,734 | 6,087 |
| Netherlands | 1,052 | 1:16,052 | 2,448 |
| Argentina | 1,031 | 1:41,458 | 3,482 |
| Austria | 990 | 1:8,601 | 1,112 |
| Poland | 835 | 1:45,519 | 7,159 |
| Scotland | 648 | 1:8,262 | 1,217 |
| Switzerland | 558 | 1:14,718 | 2,434 |
| Sweden | 539 | 1:18,269 | 1,534 |
| Norway | 463 | 1:11,106 | 1,238 |
| Hungary | 384 | 1:25,563 | 2,839 |
| Denmark | 382 | 1:14,777 | 1,449 |
| Thailand | 378 | 1:186,874 | 30,691 |
| Namibia | 272 | 1:8,858 | 1,713 |
| Iran | 245 | 1:313,398 | 21,845 |
| Russia | 237 | 1:608,114 | 53,530 |
| Paraguay | 233 | 1:31,059 | 1,055 |
| Mexico | 231 | 1:537,343 | 9,357 |
| Czechia | 218 | 1:48,777 | 8,160 |
| Peru | 213 | 1:149,221 | 7,941 |
| Romania | 197 | 1:101,918 | 11,566 |
| Belgium | 191 | 1:60,192 | 9,694 |
| Spain | 189 | 1:247,365 | 15,898 |
| New Zealand | 182 | 1:24,881 | 4,349 |
| Chile | 170 | 1:103,626 | 3,881 |
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| Luxembourg | 112 | 1:5,183 | 740 |
| French Polynesia | 110 | 1:2,553 | 518 |
| Dominican Republic | 108 | 1:96,601 | 4,209 |
| Estonia | 104 | 1:12,710 | 1,932 |
| Portugal | 104 | 1:100,175 | 4,850 |
| Guatemala | 103 | 1:156,142 | 3,458 |
| Venezuela | 89 | 1:339,372 | 7,470 |
| Ireland | 81 | 1:58,135 | 3,961 |
| Italy | 74 | 1:826,442 | 64,449 |
| Japan | 66 | 1:1,937,035 | 27,402 |
| Singapore | 64 | 1:86,058 | 3,478 |
| Wales | 62 | 1:49,912 | 4,670 |
| Uruguay | 57 | 1:60,206 | 6,510 |
| Philippines | 48 | 1:2,109,130 | 121,847 |
| Greece | 44 | 1:251,813 | 38,343 |
| Kazakhstan | 44 | 1:401,875 | 31,337 |
| Belarus | 31 | 1:306,486 | 34,064 |
| Latvia | 27 | 1:75,928 | 11,170 |
| Finland | 25 | 1:219,868 | 18,073 |
| Slovakia | 25 | 1:213,458 | 34,691 |
| China | 24 | 1:56,971,732 | 3,099 |
| Croatia | 24 | 1:176,192 | 22,291 |
| India | 23 | 1:33,350,669 | 396,143 |
| Jersey | 19 | 1:5,221 | 1,083 |
| Suriname | 19 | 1:29,085 | 5,642 |
| Hong Kong | 17 | 1:431,499 | 3,260 |
| Malaysia | 17 | 1:1,734,954 | 70,664 |
| United Arab Emirates | 14 | 1:654,448 | 24,061 |
| Cayman Islands | 13 | 1:4,915 | 636 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 12 | 1:9,198 | 1,357 |
| Colombia | 11 | 1:4,343,097 | 17,306 |
| Indonesia | 11 | 1:12,022,654 | 410,938 |
| Ecuador | 10 | 1:1,590,585 | 18,674 |
| Afghanistan | 9 | 1:3,572,576 | 20,130 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Panama | 9 | 1:434,695 | 8,518 |
| Tunisia | 9 | 1:67,847 | 8,246 |
| Costa Rica | 8 | 1:597,509 | 4,667 |
| Guam | 8 | 1:20,015 | 3,029 |
| Turkey | 8 | 1:9,727,678 | 134,647 |
| Belize | 7 | 1:50,782 | 2,565 |
| Honduras | 7 | 1:1,259,492 | 5,127 |
| Monaco | 7 | 1:5,295 | 668 |
| Lebanon | 5 | 1:1,127,417 | 17,983 |
| Slovenia | 5 | 1:497,535 | 21,006 |
| Curaçao | 4 | 1:39,312 | 638 |
| Faroe Islands | 4 | 1:12,250 | 984 |
| Iraq | 4 | 1:8,755,414 | 23,373 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 1:950,174 | 18,811 |
| Malta | 4 | 1:107,568 | 1,849 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Sudan | 4 | 1:9,377,549 | 8,207 |
| Turkmenistan | 4 | 1:1,372,278 | 6,164 |
| Azerbaijan | 3 | 1:3,216,374 | 32,290 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3 | 1:1,178,801 | 15,876 |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 1:2,326,302 | 54,089 |
| Cambodia | 3 | 1:5,162,382 | 10,688 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Ukraine | 3 | 1:15,174,232 | 372,501 |
| Vietnam | 3 | 1:30,882,018 | 4,101 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Armenia | 2 | 1:1,465,090 | 16,492 |
| Bahamas | 2 | 1:195,876 | 1,708 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 2 | 1:2,986,327 | 84,533 |
| Moldova | 2 | 1:1,780,684 | 55,103 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Albania | 1 | 1:2,914,055 | 29,474 |
| Andorra | 1 | 1:83,838 | 2,381 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Cook Islands | 1 | 1:18,179 | 1,485 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Greenland | 1 | 1:56,379 | 1,133 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Kosovo | 1 | 1:1,861,869 | 14,990 |
| Laos | 1 | 1:6,588,323 | 1,961 |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 1:2,101,472 | 31,546 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Micronesia | 1 | 1:106,243 | 1,380 |
| Montenegro | 1 | 1:639,565 | 9,092 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1 | 1:112,659 | 1,704 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1:1,298,199 | 1,718 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 1:8,386,692 | 12,859 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 49 | 1:90,405 | 6,033 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 447 | 1:8,374 | 1,133 |
| England | 260 | 1:93,751 | 9,645 |
| Wales | 2 | 1:784,208 | 16,349 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:51,882 | 3,898 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6,257 | 1:8,026 | 1,029 |
The alternate forms: Štein (37) are calculated separately.
Stein (17,584) may also be a first name.
Stein Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Syncopated farms of Steven, which see. Found in Fife, the Lothians, Ayrshire and Roxburghshire. Alan Steyn was a monk of Kilwinning Abbey, 1557. John Steyne was burgess freeman of Glasgow in 1575, and James Stein in 1583 (Burgesses). As forename: Steyn Tran in Irvine, 1450 (Irvine, I, 45), and Steyne of Wod, voter in Monkland, 1519 (Simon, 45). Katie Steven or Stein, who lived a solitary life at Laighpark, parish of Kirkoswald, is thought to have been the 'Cutty-sark' heroine of Burns's 'Tam o' Shanter.'
(Ger.) Stone, Rock [O.H.Ger. stein]
“Stone” in German. Also place name in South Germany.
(German, Dutch, Swedish) Dweller near a stone or rock, often a boundary mark; one who came from Stein, the name of several villages in Switzerland; descendant of Staino or Stein, pet forms of names beginning with Stein (stone), as Steinher and Stainold.
Local: from the town of Stein in the Isle of Skye.
Local. A town in the isle of Sky, Scotland. Stein, German and Danish, a stone.
Stein Demographics
Average Stein Salary in
United States
$50,592 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Stein Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Stein Come From? nationality or country of origin
Stein (Arabic: ستاين, Marathi: टेन, Russian: Стеин) is more frequently found in Germany than any other country or territory. It may also occur as: Štein. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Stein? popularity and diffusion
The surname Stein is the 3,079th most frequently occurring family name worldwide, held by around 1 in 39,828 people. This surname is primarily found in Europe, where 48 percent of Stein live; 45 percent live in Western Europe and 43 percent live in Germanic Europe. Stein is also the 41,522nd most frequent forename internationally It is held by 17,584 people.
This last name is most common in Germany, where it is borne by 75,606 people, or 1 in 1,065. In Germany it is most frequent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 21 percent reside, Hesse, where 12 percent reside and Rhineland-Palatinate, where 10 percent reside. Barring Germany this last name occurs in 139 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 37 percent reside and Brazil, where 7 percent reside.
Stein Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Stein has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Stein last name grew 1,070 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it grew 560 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it grew 145 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Ireland it grew 165 percent between 1901 and 2014 and in Wales it grew 3,100 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Stein Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the Stein last name is chiefly Jewish (51%) in Ireland, Orthodox (75%) in Russia and Maronite (67%) in Lebanon.
In The United States those bearing the Stein last name are 38.72% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 91.95% registered with the political party.
The amount Stein earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 26.21% more than the national average, earning €37,900 per year; in Norway they earn 0.83% more than the national average, earning 348,960 kr per year; in Peru they earn 84.85% more than the national average, earning S/. 35,834 per year; in South Africa they earn 146.66% more than the national average, earning R 586,152 per year; in United States they earn 17.25% more than the national average, earning $50,592 USD per year and in Canada they earn 25.02% more than the national average, earning $62,114 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Stein Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Stein in the Marathi language | ||
| टेन | tena | 60 |
| टेफ़ीन | tefina | 20 |
| टेिफ़न | teifana | 20 |
| Stein in the Russian language | ||
| Стеин | stein | - |
| Stein in the Arabic language | ||
| ستاين | stayn | - |
| استين | astyn | - |
| شتاين | shtayn | - |
| شتين | shtyn | - |
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Stein Reference & Research
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Footnotes
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