Steininger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a place name or dwelling/landscape feature; variants include Steininger, Steining
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈstaɪnɪŋɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Steininger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 58K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 109K
- FIFinland1 in 199K
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
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
1,084 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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 from a place name or dwelling/landscape feature; variants include Steininger, Steining. Bearer count: 1568.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Steininger 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,084 | 1 in 307K | 1.1K | Steininger | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 146 | 1 in 58K | 146 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 98 | 1 in 109K | 98 | Steininger | 24 |
| BR Brazil | 58 | 1 in 3.7M | 58 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 28 | 1 in 199K | 28 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 14 | 1 in 729K | 14 | — | — |
1,084 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Steininger 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, Toponymic surname from a place name; -inger form from Stein- stem. Bearer count: 1567.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymic surname from a settlement name in -ing(en); bearers 1567.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymic surname from SiedlungsN like Steining, Steiningen; bearer count 1568.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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 von Steiningerb. 1847ITmilitary officer (1847-1929)
- Joseph Steiningerb. 1858DEGerman politician (1858-1931)
- Wolf Steiningerb. 1902DEGerman politician (1902-1999)
- Hans Steiningerb. 1920DEGerman sinologist (1920-1990)
- Franz Steiningerb. 1922ATAustrian politician (1922-1991)
- Michel Steiningerb. 1935CHfencer
- Rolf Steiningerb. 1942DEGerman historian
- Franz-Josef Steiningerb. 1960DEGerman footballer
- Jeffree Starb. 1985USnot in their usual nameEuropean-American make-up artist, Internet personality and former singer-songwriter
- Daniel Steiningerb. 1995DEGerman footballer
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 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,605 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,457 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #24,804 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 146 | #8,135 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 98 | #17,058 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 97 | #7,846 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 58 | #94,441 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 28 | #39,454 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #32,441 |
| 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
- Where does the name Steininger come from?
- Toponymic surname from a place name or dwelling/landscape feature; variants include Steininger, Steining. Bearer count: 1568. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Steininger?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstaɪnɪŋɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Steininger mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from a place name or dwelling/landscape feature; variants include Steininger, Steining.
- In which country does Steininger have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Steininger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled steininger.
- Where is Steininger most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Steininger is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Steininger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,084 people named Steininger in 2010, about 1 in 307 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/steiningerThe 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, “Steininger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.