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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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The steen name in History

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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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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 250 - Messages: 769
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Mary M Outlaw FMLYCHECK08 0
Laura Steen John F. Faerber 1
Aunt Ora Steen & Hattee Fuqua Photo Judy Erickson 3
Frank Steen cmscrapper2001 0
Semandres Steen sharirogers73 0
Semandres Steen (1864-1923) hkwerb1 1
Steen in Shropshire England sarahrwill1 11
Martin Steen, son of Oloson Steen and Marie Olsen (Norway) goirish97 0
William and Augusta Steen IOWA Kellie 2
Stene's from Norway?? SD, MI sdspears 0
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