Steward

At the 2020 census, 21,293 Americans bore the surname Steward — 1,643rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,000.

By the numbers

People: 21,293
Rank: 1,643rd
How common: 1 in 14,000
Per 100,000: 7.1

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 52.1%
Black, not Hispanic 37.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Steward

Julian Steward (1902–1972)American anthropologist
Natalie Steward (born 1943)British swimmer, Olympic silver medallist

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

Surnames like Steward

Also a first name

Steward has been given to 1,229 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1920. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.