Last Name STEELE

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Meaning The son of Stee;. The old Danish Staal. The Scandinavian origin is manifest. Iron and Steel are components of many of these early northern personal names.
A name given, in all probability, to a person who is as inflexible, hard, firm, or enduring.
Origin English, Jewish, Irish, Belgian, South african

Rank 331 (2000 US census) 312 (1990 US census)
Count 84,353 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 80.39%, or 67811 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 14.94%, or 12602 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.41%, or 346 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.08%, or 911 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.47%, or 1240 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.71%, or 1442 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Scottish surnames

 Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

Russian middle names

 As with many things that are 'Russian,' neither child nor his parents has much choice in picking the name. It is purely patronymic and generally predefined at the time when the child is born or even rather conceived. The name is derived from the child's father's first...

Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

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