Stepno
Stepno | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Stepno Location within Poland | |
| Coordinates: 53°49′20″N 16°44′48″E / 53.82222°N 16.74667°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | West Pomeranian |
| County | Szczecinek |
| Gmina | Biały Bór |
Stepno [ˈstɛpnɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Biały Bór, within Szczecinek County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.[1]
For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
Stepno is also part of the Russian-language place names Stepnogorsk in Kazakhstan (location of the Stepnogorsk Scientific and Technical Institute for Microbiology), Stepno-Baltay[2] in the Irkutsk region and Stepno-Durasovo [3] in the Samara region, as well as Russian place names Stepnoy or Stepnoye.
In the United States, Stepno begins to appear as a family name in census records[4] in the early twentieth century, used by immigrants giving their birthplace as Russia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia and (as "de Stepno" or "di Stepno") Italy.
On the Internet, the domain stepno.com was registered 6 March 2000 to serve as the home page for a United States–based journalism, media studies and Web design professor by that name.
The Web service Forbears.io estimates that "Stepno" is only the 3,185,033rd most common surname in the world, with only 38 identified.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Główny Urząd Statystyczny" [Central Statistical Office] (in Polish). To search: Select "Miejscowości (SIMC)" tab, select "fragment (min. 3 znaki)" (minimum 3 characters), enter town name in the field below, click "WYSZUKAJ" (Search).
- ↑ "Find the City database". 2015-06-29. Archived from the original on 2019-06-08. Retrieved 2015-06-29.
- ↑ "find the City database". 2015-06-29. Archived from the original on 2019-06-08. Retrieved 2015-06-29.
- ↑ "Surname search at FamilySearch". FamilySearch.
- ↑ "Stepno Surname Origin, Meaning & Last Name History". Archived from the original on 2023-11-10. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
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