Staiger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname; variant with ei/ai, from place names ultimately to ahd
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈstaɪɡɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Staiger is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname; variant with ei/ai, from place names ultimately to ahd. stīg / stīga 'Pfad, Weg, Treppe'.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Staiger counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 164 | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 149 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 124 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 26 | — |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Staiger is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymischer Familienname: Herkunftsname zu SiedlungsN Staig/Steig bzw. zu Siedlungen wie Steiger; auch Wohnstättenname zu bair. steiger 'Acker am Steig' oder mnd. steiger 'steil'; 1540 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, si. Steig Staimer, Stain-: s. STEIN (Stake): nd. "Stange,Zauii- stecken" (vgl. nhd. Stek- ken und Stachel). Schon altd. Stac|co, her (Stä(c)- ker), ulf. Staak(s), Sta(a)ckef Sta(a)kmann (x STARK und ON. Sta(a)ken); obd. Stackl, Stagl, St edel, Galghen- stake. Vgl. Brand und Feuer
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, from Steig
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Otto Staigerb. 1894CHSwiss artist (1894-1967)
- Emil Staigerb. 1908CHSwiss literary historian, educationist and writer (1908-1987)
- Janet Staigerb. 1946USfilm theorist, film historian, university teacher (1946-)
- Wolfgang Staigerb. 1947DEGerman politician
- Ludwig Staigerb. 1948DEGerman mathematician and computer scientist
- Bodo Staigerb. 1949DEGerman musician (1949–2019)
- Roy Staigerb. 1950USAmerican baseball player
- Marcus Staigerb. 1971DEGerman journalist
- Lucca Staigerb. 1988DEGerman basketball player (born 1988)
- Reica Staigerb. 1996CHJapanese-Swiss ice hockey player and on-ice official
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 23 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,599 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,273 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,682 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 164 | #43,195 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 149 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 124 | #9,341 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 26 | #76,659 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Where does the name Staiger come from?
- Toponymic surname; variant with ei/ai, from place names ultimately to ahd. stīg / stīga 'Pfad, Weg, Treppe'. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Staiger?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstaɪɡɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Staiger mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname; variant with ei/ai, from place names ultimately to ahd.
- In which country does Staiger have the most bearers?
- Staiger is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Staiger?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/staigerThe 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, “Staiger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.