Stephens

At the 2020 census, 139,485 Americans bore the surname Stephens — 197th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,143.

By the numbers

People: 139,485
Rank: 197th
How common: 1 in 2,143
Per 100,000: 46.7

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From the given name Stephen + the patronymic suffix -s.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.6%
Black, not Hispanic 20.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Stephens

Sloane Stephens (born 1993)US American tennis player
Alexander H. Stephens (1812–1883)vice president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
Toby Stephens (born 1969)British actor
John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852)American explorer, writer, and diplomat
Helen Stephens (1918–1994)athletics competitor
James Francis Stephens (1792–1852)British ornithologist and entomologist
Jack Stephens (born 1994)English association football player
Dale Stephens (born 1989)English association football player

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

Surnames like Stephens

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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.