Stegen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from Stegen, from German Steg ‘bridge, footbridge; narrow path’; 368 bearers
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/stɛɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stegen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 90K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- NONorway1 in 32K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈890 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from Stegen, from German Steg ‘bridge, footbridge; narrow path’; 368 bearers.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stegen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Stegen | 78 |
| BE Belgium | 306 | 1 in 38K | 306 | Stegen | 26 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Stegen | 14 |
| US United States | 268 | 1 in 1.2M | 302 | Stegen | 133 |
| NO Norway | 170 | 1 in 32K | 170 | Stegen | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 163 | 1 in 106K | 163 | Stegen | 20 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Stegen | 8 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Stegen is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, plural of steeg
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, genitive dual/plural of stegno
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of stege
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, definite singular of steg
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)
- Johanna Stegenb. 1793DEGerman heroine (1793–1842)
- Guido Stegenb. 1951BEBelgian architect and urban planner
- James C. Stegenresearcher
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 306 | #5,380 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 302 | #69,958 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 298 | #5,760 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 270 | #68,172 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 268 | #72,568 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 170 | #9,383 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 163 | #12,652 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Stegen mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from Stegen, from German Steg ‘bridge, footbridge; narrow path’; 368 bearers. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Stegen?
- A machine transcription gives /stɛɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stegen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 888 people named Stegen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stegen.
- Where is Stegen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stegen is densest in Norway — about 1 in 32 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Stegen?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 306 people named Stegen in 2008, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stegenThe 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, “Stegen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.