Steffen

Steffen is the 3,154th most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,156 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 26,800.

By the numbers

People: 11,156
Rank: 3,154th
How common: 1 in 26,800
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Steffen

Britta Steffen (born 1983)German swimmer
Renato Steffen (born 1991)Swiss footballer
Zack Steffen (born 1995)American soccer player
Anthony Steffen (1929–2004)Brazilian actor
Benjamin Steffen (born 1982)Swiss fencer
Willi Steffen (1925–2005)Swiss footballer
Albert Steffen (1884–1963)Swiss writer
Otto Steffen (1874–1957)American gymnast

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

Surnames like Steffen

Also a first name

Steffen has been given to 1,505 American babies as a first name since 1948, peaking in 1991. 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.