Stevens

177,585 people in the United States were counted with the surname Stevens in the 2020 census, making it the 141st most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,683.

By the numbers

People: 177,585
Rank: 141st
How common: 1 in 1,683
Per 100,000: 59.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.6%
Black, not Hispanic 11.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Stevens

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)American poet
George Stevens (1904–1975)American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer
Dan Stevens (born 1982)British actor
Sufjan Stevens (born 1975)American singer and musician
Nettie Stevens (1861–1912)American geneticist
Fisher Stevens (born 1963)American actor, director, producer and writer
John Paul Stevens (1920–2019)United States Supreme Court justice
Christopher Stevens (1960–2012)American diplomat, lawyer and ambassador to Libya

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

Surnames like Stevens

Also a first name

Stevens has been given to 1,306 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 1989. 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.