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The STEEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,813 4759 0.003 25
United States (1880 census) 10,503 568 0.021 210
Change since 1880 -3690 -4191 -0.018 -185
Other Countries
Australia 2,178 733 0.013 133
United Kingdom 9,947 601 0.022 217
Top States for STEEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 616 4881 0.002 18
Texas 600 3885 0.003 29
Pennsylvania 444 3592 0.004 36
Ohio 419 3508 0.004 37
Florida 413 5048 0.003 26
Top States for STEEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 103 1859 0.008 80
Utah 115 2634 0.005 51
Vermont 27 3851 0.004 44
Oklahoma 140 3421 0.004 41
Washington DC 23 2731 0.004 40

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called STEEL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called STEEL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called STEEL in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a STEEL by picking someone at random in Idaho than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of STEEL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the STEEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the STEEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of STEEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 986 14.47
White (Hispanic) 143 2.1
Mixed Race 111 1.63
Native American/Alaskan 53 0.78
Asian/Pacific 37 0.54
White (Caucasian) 5,483 80.48

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the STEEL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of STEEL in historical publications

STEEL. STEELE. A northern pronunciation of stile. In Scotl. the spur of a hill.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to STEEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as STEEL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for STEEL

The following words are slight variants of STEEL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.