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    The surname Stepp

    A surname, carried by 10,571 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S310

    Stepp: #3,376 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Stepp #3,376, 10,571 people Stepp: #3,376 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Stepp #3,376, 10,571 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stepp is more common than 97.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 10,571 people named Stepp in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 29,207 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 10,303.

    #3,376
    rank among US surnames
    10,571
    people in 2010
    3.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.6%
    change since 2000 (was #3,191)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,367Maples10,60329,119
    #3,368Galarza10,60129,124
    #3,369Wenger10,59629,138
    #3,370Zeller10,59529,141
    #3,371Carbone10,59129,152
    #3,372Maxey10,58429,171
    #3,373Narvaez10,57929,185

    Who is named Stepp

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

    90% of people named Stepp identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.8%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Stepp

    Stepp has the Soundex code S310, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S310.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Stepp?
    10,571 people in the United States had the surname Stepp in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 29,207 Americans. It ranked 3,376th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Stepp?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Stepp identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Stepp getting more or less common?
    More common. 10,303 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,571 in 2010, up 2.6%.