Surname Spotlight: Steinberger

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Meaning of the name

Steinberger is a familiar spelling of the German name Steinberg. The name is generally explained as “One who came from Steinberg (stone mountain), the name of many places in Germany”.

Steinberger is built on the same root as Steinberg, with the ending -er. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. 1,827 Americans were listed as Steinberger in the 2010 census. It sits among the 25,000 most common last names in the country. French civil records give 225 births under the name Steinberger from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1951–1960.

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