Steinle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Zu mhd. stein, mnd. stēn ‚Stein, Fels‘; Diminutivform mit -le
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈstaɪnəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Steinle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 75K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 157K
- USUnited States1 in 304K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
1,096 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Zu mhd. stein, mnd. stēn ‚Stein, Fels‘; Diminutivform mit -le. Belegt als Patronym oder Wohnstättenname; 2589 Tokens.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Steinle 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 | 1,096 | 1 in 304K | 1.1K | Steinle | 108 |
| AR Argentina | 290 | 1 in 157K | 290 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 188 | 1 in 1.1M | 188 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 112 | 1 in 75K | 112 | Steinle | 16 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | Steinle | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
1,096 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Steinle is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Diminutiv-/Hypokoristikum-Surname mit -le; Bearer count: 1291.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)
- Bartholomäus Steinleb. 1580DEGerman sculptor
- Theodor Steinleb. 1775DEGerman politician and jurist
- Eduard von Steinleb. 1810ATAustrian artist (1810-1886)
- Stefan Steinleb. 1921ATAustrian politician
- Holger Steinleb. 1948DEGerman author
- Franz Steinleb. 1949DEGerman judge
- Christa Steinleb. 1951ATAustrian art historian
- Friedrich Steinleb. 1957DEGerman university teacher
- Loub. 1963DEnot in their usual nameGerman singer
- Jena SteinleUSresearcher
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,438 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,641 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,251 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 290 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 188 | #38,644 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 112 | #10,090 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #186,794 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2 | #24,983 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Steinle?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstaɪnəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Steinle mean?
- Recorded meaning: Zu mhd. stein, mnd. stēn ‚Stein, Fels‘; Diminutivform mit -le.
- In which country does Steinle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Steinle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled steinle.
- Where is Steinle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Steinle is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 75 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Steinle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,096 people named Steinle in 2010, about 1 in 304 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/steinleThe 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, “Steinle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.