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The steen Surname

steen Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: from a reduced form of the personal name Steven.
  2. North German, Dutch, and Scandinavian: from sten ‘stone’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on stony ground, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked with stone: a quarryman, stonecutter, or stonemason. The Swedish surname probably originated as a soldier’s name.
  3. Swedish: from the personal name Sten.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of steen Families in the US in 1920
Number of steen families
 98-194
 33-97
 1-32
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