Last Name STEPHENS

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	The son of Stephen. There is no instance of Stephen in Domesday Book. But like John and Peter. it gained popularity with great rapidity; and Stephen of Blois, of course, excircised an influence in its favor. It was enourmously popular in the hereditary surname period, and, as a consequence, has endless represetntatives of nicknames and pet forms in the directories of today.

Origin	English, Jewish, Arabic, Greek, Irish, Lebanese, Falkland, South african, Hungarian

Rank	181 (2000 US census)	165 (1990 US census)

Count	138,742 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

76.54%, or 106193 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
19.22%, or 26666 total occurrences, as black,
0.37%, or 513 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.64%, or 888 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.61%, or 2234 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.63%, or 2261 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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