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    The surname Steininger

    A surname, carried by 1,084 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex S355

    Steininger: #23,457 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Steininger #23,457, 1,084 people Steininger: #23,457 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Steininger #23,457, 1,084 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Steininger is more common than 85.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,084 people named Steininger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 284,821 Americans. That is down 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,125.

    #23,457
    rank among US surnames
    1,084
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.6%
    change since 2000 (was #21,605)

    Who is named Steininger

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    93% of people named Steininger identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Steininger

    Steininger has the Soundex code S355, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S355.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Steininger?
    1,084 people in the United States had the surname Steininger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 284,821 Americans. It ranked 23,457th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Steininger?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Steininger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Steininger getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,125 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,084 in 2010, down 3.6%.