Staiger is used as a family name or surname in Germany. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Staiger
No. of characters: 7
Origin: Germany
Meaning:

Variant form of the Steger. Dweller near a narrow brifge; one who came from Stegen, in Germany.

The form of Stagg. The animal—perhaps applied to a fleet runner.

How popular is Staiger?

Staiger is common in Germany, United States, Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland.

Staiger is ranked 63649 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Staiger bearers increased by 5.23 per cent in 2010 US census to 1208 since 2000, the surname slipped by 326 spots and ranked at 21599. The last name was found in around 4 per million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 95.36 97.47
Hispanic or Latino 1.74 1.22
Others 1.24 0
Black 0.75 0
Staiger is quite popular last name mostly concentrated in Germany which signifies that it is originated from Germany. Around 7872 people have been found who wears Staiger as their family name. Staiger is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with thousands of Staiger:
1,889 Germany5,556
21,620 United States1,623
Countries with hundreds of Staiger:
41,176 Brazil180
19,922 Argentina174
7,605 Switzerland134
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
55,860 Australia29
104,340 Canada24
213,627 France20
101,561 England19
47,931 Austria17
45,338 Sweden16
24,643 New Zealand16
390,733 Thailand12
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
78,608 Spain10
150,017 South Africa10
33,195 Chile7

Immigrants to US

From Germany

Cathar. Staiger hailed from Linz, Baden. 21 years old embarked for New York from Hamburg on Eugenie and arrived on June 1, 1852. Gregor Staiger, aged 27, Janetta Staiger, aged 38, 25 years old Ignaz Staiger, Farmer Jean Staiger, 24 years old Maria Staiger, Engelbert Staiger (28) Farmer, Georg Staiger, aged 23, 27 years old Jean Staiger, and 145 other Staiger around 50% of whom were farmer while others worked as mason and bricklayer, laborer, joiner, servant, baker, matron migrated to US.

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