Steen

At the 2020 census, 12,234 Americans bore the surname Steen — 2,873rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,400.

By the numbers

People: 12,234
Rank: 2,873rd
How common: 1 in 24,400
Per 100,000: 4.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Germanic

As a general Germanic Steen surname, from Dutch Steen, vls van der steen, Danish Steen, Swedish Steen, Norwegian Steen. Compare Staines.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Steen described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 78.5%
Black, not Hispanic 13.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Steen

Jan Steen (1626–1679)painter from the Northern Netherlands
Jessica Steen (born 1965)Canadian actress
Alexander Steen (born 1984)Swedish-Canadian ice hockey player
Knut Steen (1924–2011)Norwegian sculptor
Dave Steen (born 1959)Canadian decathlete
Johannes Steen (1827–1906)6th Prime Minister of Norway
Reiulf Steen (1933–2014)Norwegian politician
Thomas Steen (born 1960)Swedish ice hockey player and Canadian politician

People named Steen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Steen

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.