# Steel (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/steel/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 7,111 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,949 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 43,418 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.4% (6,813 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Steel in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 79% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 14% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 2.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Steel in the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy.

## People named Steel

- Danielle Steel, American writer
- Amy Steel, American actress
- Anthony Steel, British actor (1920–2001)
- Alan Steel, actor (1935-2015)
- Dawn Steel, American film producer (1946–1997)
- Carolyn Steel, British architect and food urbanist
- Duncan Steel, British astronomer

## Similar surnames

Steele, Sotelo, Seidel, Settle, Stella, Stelly, Stell, Steil, Steely, Stehle, Stowell, Stahl.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.