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The STEPTOE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,284 19470 0 5
United States (1880 census) 393 11665 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +891 -7805 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 77 17894 0 5
United Kingdom 672 7134 0.001 15
Top States for STEPTOE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 481 5335 0.002 23
Georgia 128 6822 0.002 16
California 67 40410 0.000 2
Virginia 61 12703 0.001 9
Louisiana 58 9795 0.001 13
Top States for STEPTOE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 17 4176 0.003 30
Texas 481 5335 0.002 23
Delaware 16 10620 0.002 20
South Dakota 12 13254 0.002 16
Georgia 128 6822 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of STEPTOE

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

Ethnic distribution of STEPTOE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 779 60.67
White (Caucasian) 437 34.03
Mixed Race 43 3.35
White (Hispanic) 17 1.32
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 STEPTOE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of STEPTOE in historical publications

STEPTOE. Probably refers to gait.

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 STEPTOE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as STEPTOE.

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 STEPTOE

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