Étienne
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French form of Stephen, from Greek Stephanos ‘crown, garland’
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: INSEE, 2024
/etjɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Étienne is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 62nd most common given name.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.6K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 379 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Etienne in FR France, US United States, BE Belgium and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)French form of Stephen, from Greek Stephanos ‘crown, garland’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Étienne counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #253 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 85K | Etienne | 379 |
| CM Cameroon | #62 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Etienne | 42 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #206 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 3 | Etienne | 22 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Etienne | 63 |
| RW Rwanda | #145 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Etienne | 11 |
| BE Belgium | #236 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 2.7K | Etienne | 134 |
| US United States | — | 2,181 | 1 in 153K | 9.1K | Etienne | 298 |
| CH Switzerland | #592 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 704 | Etienne | 98 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Étienne is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Stephen (Christian martyr)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Du nom grec Stephanos, de stephanos « couronne ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Du grec stephanos, « couronné »; saint Étienne, premier martyr, fêté le 26 décembre.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Swedish, Se Stefan.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
French form of STEPHEN .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Stephanus Ib. 300ITnot in their usual namePope and Bishop of Rome from 254 to 257
- Stephen IVb. 770ITnot in their usual namepope
- Stephen II of Hungaryb. 1101HUnot in their usual nameKing of Hungary from 1116 to 1131
- Stephen III of Hungaryb. 1147HUnot in their usual nameKing of Hungary and Croatia (1147-1172)
- Innocent VIb. 1282FRnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1353 to 1362
- Francis I, Holy Roman Emperorb. 1708FRnot in their usual nameHoly Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany (1708-1765).
- Stéphane Mallarméb. 1842FRnot in their usual nameFrench Symbolist poet (1842–1898)
- Étienne Tshisekedib. 1932CDDemocratic Republic of Congo Prime Minister (1932-2017)
- Gnassingbé Eyadémab. 1935TGnot in their usual namePresident of Togo from 1967 to 2005
- William Sami Étienne Grigahcineb. 1986FRFrench record producer (born 1986)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 745 | #640 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 3 | #269 |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Étienne mean, and where does it come from?
- French form of Stephen, from Greek Stephanos ‘crown, garland’ Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Étienne a male or female name?
- Étienne is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2024).
- What are other forms of the name Étienne?
- In the etymology graph, Esteban, Stefan and Stephan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Étienne?
- A machine transcription gives /etjɛn/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Étienne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Étienne in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled etienne.
- How common is the name Étienne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,181 people named Étienne in 2020, about 1 in 153 thousand residents.
- How common is Étienne compared with other names?
- In France, Étienne is the 253rd most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A9tienneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Étienne” — the 253rd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.