How common is the surname Steller?

1,133 people in the United States had the surname Steller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 272,503 Americans. It ranked 22,646th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Steller?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Steller identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Steller?

Steller is /ˈstɛləɹ/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Steller getting more or less common?

More common. 979 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,133 in 2010, up 16%.

The surname Steller

A surname, carried by 1,133 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈstɛləɹ/ 2 syllables Soundex S346

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Steller is more common than 86% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,133 people named Steller in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 272,503 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 979.

#22,646

rank among US surnames

1,133

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+15.7%

change since 2000 (was #24,037)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#22,637	Prato	1,134	272,262
#22,646	DiVincenzo	1,133	272,503

Who is named Steller

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

93% of people named Steller identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
Two or more races 2.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Steller

Steller has the Soundex code S346, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S346.

Questions

How common is the surname Steller?: 1,133 people in the United States had the surname Steller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 272,503 Americans. It ranked 22,646th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Steller?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Steller identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Steller?: Steller is /ˈstɛləɹ/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Steller getting more or less common?: More common. 979 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,133 in 2010, up 16%.