Steyn
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/stɛɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Steyn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 983(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 46K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 983 (inferred from the name graph)
≈57,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Steyn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #393 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 983 | — | Steyn | 40 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 1 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 207K | 312 | Steyn | 9 |
| US United States | — | 282 | 1 in 1.2M | 448 | Steyn | 37 |
| IN India | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 8.6M | 3 | Steyn | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Steyn | 4 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Steyn | 20 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Steyn | 7 |
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 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Steyn is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Afrikaans, Dutch surname, a variant of "stone".
as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames
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)
- Martinus Theunis Steynb. 1858ZA6th President of the Orange Free State and South African judge. (1858–1916)
- Colin Fraser Steynb. 1887ZASouth African lawyer
- Lucas Cornelius Steynb. 1903ZAChief Justice of South Africa (1903–1976)
- Mark Steynb. 1959CACanadian writer
- Frans Steynb. 1982ZASouth African basketball player (born 1982)
- Dale Steynb. 1983ZASouth African cricketer
- Morné Steynb. 1984ZASouth African rugby union player
- François Steynb. 1987ZASouth African rugby union footballer
- Luke Steynb. 1993ZWZimbabwean Alpine skier
- Savannah Steynb. 1996GBBritish actress (born 1996)
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 27 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 448 | #50,441 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 312 | #15,928 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 282 | #69,579 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 175 | #96,480 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #8,068 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Steyn?
- A machine transcription gives /stɛɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Steyn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 57 thousand people named Steyn in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled steyn.
- How common is the name Steyn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 282 people named Steyn in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Steyn compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Steyn is the 393rd most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Steyn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/steynThe 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, “Steyn” — the 393rd most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.