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The STEER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,170 20945 0 4
United States (1880 census) 640 7917 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +530 -13028 +N/A -9
Other Countries
Australia 1,097 1512 0.007 67
United Kingdom 4,221 1492 0.009 92
Top States for STEER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 105 20845 0.000 3
Florida 105 15481 0.001 7
Ohio 86 14236 0.001 8
Minnesota 72 10193 0.001 15
Texas 66 20229 0.000 3
Top States for STEER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 17 5253 0.003 27
New Hampshire 23 6601 0.002 19
Delaware 13 9784 0.002 17
Connecticut 50 8747 0.001 15
Minnesota 72 10193 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of STEER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the STEER surname.

Ethnic distribution of STEER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 969 82.82
Black/African American 107 9.15
White (Hispanic) 69 5.9
Mixed Race 21 1.79
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

STEER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of STEER in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of STEER.

Similar names to STEER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as STEER.

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 STEER

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