Stelter
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Übername zu mhd. stelze/stülz(e), mnd
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈstɛɫtɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stelter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 154K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 159K
- USUnited States1 in 173K
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
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 154K (inferred from the name graph)
1,922 people, 2010
Reference-verified
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Übername zu mhd. stelze/stülz(e), mnd. stelte 'Stelze, Stelzbein, Krücke'; Bezeichnung für einen Gehbehinderten, der sich mit Hilfsmittel fortbewegt. 2033 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stelter 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.
1,922 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Stelter 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, Persönliches Merkmal: vermutlich zu Stelz/stell- 'steifbeinig, hölzern'; Bearer count 2033.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)
- Karl Stelterb. 1823DEGerman poet, writer and merchant (1823–1912)
- Hans Stelterb. 1895DEGerman politician and journalist
- Wilhelm Stelterb. 1915DEGerman dentist (1915–2008)
- Klaus Stelterb. 1928DEGerman jurist
- Hans-Ulrich Stelterb. 1945DEGerman journalist
- Roland Stelterb. 1953DEGerman author, artist and designer (born 1953)
- Bernd Stelterb. 1961DEGerman comedian, writer and television presenter
- Daniel Stelterb. 1964DEGerman economist, author and blogger
- Daniel Stelterb. 1977DEGerman guitarist and composer
- Brian Stelterb. 1985USAmerican journalist and TV host (born 1985)
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,503 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,226 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,278 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 260 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 221 | #33,848 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 131 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 131 | #24,118 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 117 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 117 | #26,080 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #31,064 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11 | #38,256 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Stelter mean?
- Recorded meaning: Übername zu mhd. stelze/stülz(e), mnd.
- How do you pronounce Stelter?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstɛɫtɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stelter have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Stelter, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stelter.
- Where is Stelter most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stelter is densest in Poland — about 1 in 154 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Stelter?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,922 people named Stelter in 2010, about 1 in 173 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/stelterThe 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, “Stelter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.