The STEPHEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,934	3655	0.003	33
United States (1880 census)	2,606	2341	0.005	52
Change since 1880	+6328	-1314	-0.002	-19
Other Countries
Australia	1,262	1314	0.008	77
United Kingdom	5,870	1073	0.013	128

Top States for STEPHEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	814	3582	0.002	24
New York	748	2439	0.004	39
Florida	699	2850	0.004	44
Texas	689	3228	0.003	33
Ohio	516	2613	0.005	45
Top States for STEPHEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Colorado	250	2147	0.006	58
Indiana	332	2251	0.005	55
Washington DC	30	1966	0.005	52
Kansas	129	2445	0.005	48
Ohio	516	2613	0.005	45

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of STEPHEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the STEPHEN 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 STEPHEN 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 STEPHEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	420	4.7
White (Hispanic)	190	2.13
Mixed Race	172	1.93
Native American/Alaskan	58	0.65
White (Caucasian)	5,996	67.11
Black/African American	2,098	23.48

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

Similar names to STEPHEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as STEPHEN.

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.