Steger

4,666 people in the United States were counted with the surname Steger in the 2020 census, making it the 6,937th most common in the country. That is about one person in 64,100.

By the numbers

People: 4,666
Rank: 6,937th
How common: 1 in 64,100
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

As a German surname for someone who lived near a steep path, from Steiger (“one who ascends”). This surname is also very common in Slavic countries.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.1%
Black, not Hispanic 5.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Steger

Bastian Steger (born 1981)German table tennis player
Michael Steger (born 1980)American actor
Aleš Šteger (born 1973)Slovene poet, writer, essayist, translator, editor and literary critic

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

Surnames like Steger

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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.