| Frequency Comparisons | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Rank | Frequency % | Per million people | |
| United States | ||||
| United States (Current snapshot) | 128 | 124109 | 0 | 0 |
| United States (1880 census) | 9 | 90540 | 0 | 0 |
| Change since 1880 | +119 | -33569 | +N/A | +N/A |
| Other Countries | ||||
| Australia | 2 | 223968 | 0 | 0 |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 0 | ||
'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.
Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the STER surname.
| Classification | Total | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| White (Caucasian) | 111 | 86.72 |
| Black/African American | 13 | 10.16 |
| Asian/Pacific | Less than 100 | Insignificant |
| Mixed Race | Less than 100 | Insignificant |
| Native American/Alaskan | None reported | 0 |
| White (Hispanic) | Less than 100 | Insignificant |
Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the STER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.
STER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?
W" STER. An Anglo- Saxon termination, denoting some feminine occupation, as ER does a masculine one, as spinner, spinster. Many of the surnames with this desinence shew the change of English customs in regard to the emiloyments of women within the past few centuries : for example, brewing, baking, and weaving were formerly feminine labours, and consequently Brewster, Baxter, Webster mean the woman (not the man) who brews, bakes, or weaves. HoAv these feminine words became transferred to the other gender, so as to become hereditary as surnames, is explained by Mr. Poulson, in his Beverlac, p. 128. — " When men began to invade those departments of industry by which Avomcn used to earn an honest livelihood, they retained the feminine appellation for some time, as men-midwives and men-milliners now do; but afterwards masculine words drove the feminine ones out of the language, as men had driven the women out of the employments." See moreinEng. Surn., i. ll-t.
Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.
The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as STER.
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