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The steele Surname

steele Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: from Middle English stele ‘steel’, hence a nickname for someone considered as hard and durable as steel, or metonymic occupational name for a foundry worker.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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steele Family Facts

Distribution of steele Families in the US in 1920
Number of steele families
 395-787
 132-394		 1-131
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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