Stein Family History
Stein Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Stein
‘rock’, Middle High German stein, hence a topographic name
either for someone who lived on stony ground or for someone who lived
by a notable outcrop of rock or by a stone boundary marker or
monument. It could also be a metonymic occupational name for a mason
or stonecutter, or, among Jews, an ornamental name. JXE, ab This
name is widespread throughout central and eastern Europe.Dutch:
from a reduced form of the personal name Augustijn (see
Austin).Norwegian: habitational name from any of
ten or more farmsteads, notably in southeastern Norway, so named from
Old Norse steinn ‘stone’.Scottish: from a reduced
form of the personal name Steven (see Steen,
Steven).Northern English and Scottish: from the Old Norse
personal name Steinn meaning ‘stone’.Southern
English: habitational name from a place named with Old English
st?ne ‘stony place’, for example Stein in Sussex or Steane
in Northamptonshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Stein Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Stein families
 1,012 - 2,022  338 - 1,011 |
 1 - 337  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Stein families
|
98 - 194 33 - 97 |
1 - 32 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Stein families
|
58 - 113 20 - 57 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Stein Family Origin
Stein Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Stein
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Stein Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Stein census records
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