Šteiner
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
/ʃtʲeiɲer/(machine-generated) Slovak · model-generated
Šteiner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 23,735 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Steiner.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 489(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 12K
- SISlovenia1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 489 (inferred from the name graph)
23,735 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Steiner in US United States, CH Switzerland, CZ Czechia and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Šteiner
- Slovak:/ʃtʲeiɲer/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Czech:/ʃtɛɪnɛr/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from German Steiner.
Cited for this meaning 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Šteiner is found
(measured from records)Šteiner counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 23,735 | 1 in 14K | 24K | Steiner | 113 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 17,169 | 1 in 489 | 17K | Steiner | 32 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,592 | 1 in 133K | 1.6K | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 906 | 1 in 12K | 906 | Steiner | 50 |
| SE Sweden | — | 593 | 1 in 17K | 593 | Steiner | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 233 | 1 in 15K | 233 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | #626 | 194 | 1 in 28K | 194 | Steiner | 28 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 161 | 1 in 13K | 161 | — | 1 |
23,735 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Karlo Štajnerb. 1902ATnot in their usual nameYugoslav communist (1902-1992)
- Rikard Štajnerb. 1921HRnot in their usual nameCroatian economist (1921-2013)
- Jiří Štajnerb. 1976CZnot in their usual nameCzech footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Šteiner mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Steiner. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 4 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Šteiner?
- It depends on the language: in Slovak /ʃtʲeiɲer/; in Czech /ʃtɛɪnɛr/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Šteiner?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Šteiner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled steiner. After it come Switzerland, Brazil, Czechia and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Šteiner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šteiner is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 489 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šteiner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,735 people named Šteiner in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Šteiner compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Šteiner is the 626th most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Šteiner?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1teinerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Šteiner” — ranked 1432nd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.