Steeg
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: Toponymic surname from Steeg, from German Steg ‘bridge, footbridge; narrow path’; 577 bearers
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈstiɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Steeg is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- NLNetherlands
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
House name in the Judengasse of Frankfort on Main since 1776.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Steeg is read(measured from records)
Steeg is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English48%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Steeg in English.
- German18%
Toponymic surname from Steeg, from German Steg ‘bridge, footbridge; narrow path’; 577 bearers.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Wohnstättenname; univerbierte Präposition + Steeg; morphologisch: -steeg. Belegt 14.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
- Dutch16%
an alleyway; a lane (between walls, fencing, etc.); a bystreet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French6.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Steeg in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Steeg is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
House name in the Judengasse of Frankfort on Main since 1776.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In frr, to stick, put inside
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Winandus de Stegab. 1371DEnot in their usual nameGerman humanist
- Jules Steegb. 1836FRFrench politician (1836–1898)
- Théodore Steegb. 1868FRFrench politician, Prime Minister of France (1868-1950)
- Ludwig Steegb. 1894DEGerman politician (1894-1945)
- Elde Steegb. 1908DEGerman photographer (1908-1988)
- Günther Steegb. 1930DEGerman journalist (1930-2018)
- Tim Vom Steegb. 1966USAmerican soccer player
- Justin vom Steegb. 1997USAmerican soccer player
- Carson Vom Steegb. 1999USAmerican soccer player
- Evan Whitney SteegCAPh.D. University of Toronto 1997
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)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 383 | #51,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 382 | #57,536 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 351 | #57,914 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 201 | #10,347 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 17 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Steeg come from?
- House name in the Judengasse of Frankfort on Main since 1776. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Steeg?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstiɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Steeg mean?
- In German, Toponymic surname from Steeg, from German Steg ‘bridge, footbridge; narrow path’; 577 bearers.
- In which country does Steeg have the most bearers?
- Steeg is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/steegThe 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, “Steeg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.