Meaning and Origin of: Steen

Boy name origins & meanings

  • German : Stone

Boy name variations

Stein
Steyn
Stine
Styne
Steiner
Steinway
Steinbeck
Steinberg
Steinmetz

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : from a reduced form of the personal name Steven.
  • North German, Dutch, and Scandinavian : from sten ‘stone’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on stony ground, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked with stone: a quarryman, stonecutter, or stonemason. The Swedish surname probably originated as a soldier’s name.
  • Swedish : from the personal name Sten.