The Steinback Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

Arms linked to Steinbach and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

What Steinback means

Seen on a birth certificate or a ship's manifest, Steinback is usually a form of Steinbach. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “One who came from Steinbach (stony brook), the name of many places in Germany”.

Before spelling was fixed, Steinbach was also written Steinback. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Steinback with 255 bearers, at rank 75,564.

Get the complete Steinback report, with a museum-style coat of arms.