Last Name STEPHENSON

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, Irish, Falkland, Moroccan

Rank 668 (2000 US census) 643 (1990 US census)
Count 46,662 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 83.02%, or 38739 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 12.49%, or 5828 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.46%, or 215 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.6%, or 280 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.67%, or 779 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.77%, or 826 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Longest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

English surnames

 English surnames can be divided into five classes: Baptisimal or Personal (first) names, local, official, and occupative surnames. Nicknames represent the last class. Practically there are only four classes, for it is often hard ti distinguish between occupation and offic...

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