Štepan

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Štepan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name. Recorded meaning: :(given name) From Russian Степа́н (Stepán, “Stephen”), from Greek Στέφανος (Stéfanos). Doublet of Stephen. :(surname) From Czech Štěpán.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 222(measured from records)
  • RORomania1 in 69as Ştefan
  • BGBulgaria1 in 137as Стефан

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Štepan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

972,808 named Steven, 2020

#17 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

10 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
690 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 222 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

StevenLatin(measured from records)
СтепанCyrillic(measured from records)
סטפןHebrew(measured from records)
ΣτεφανουGreek(measured from records)
ՍտեփանArmenian(measured from records)
สตีเฟ่นThai(measured from records)
스티븐Hangul(measured from records)
სთეპანGeorgian(measured from records)
স্টিভেনBengali(measured from records)
ስቲቨንEthiopic(measured from records)

10 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Stefan in DE Germany, RO Romania, BG Bulgaria and 2 more, Steven in US United States, CZ Czechia and Stephen in GB United Kingdom, NG Nigeria.

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)

Derivation of Štepan: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Štepan
  1. RussianСтепа́нStepán“Stephen”(measured from records)
  2. GreekΣτέφανοςStéfanos(measured from records)
  3. CzechŠtěpán(measured from records)

:(given name) From Russian Степа́н (Stepán, “Stephen”), from Greek Στέφανος (Stéfanos). Doublet of Stephen. :(surname) From Czech Štěpán.

Sources 5

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Nordic Names
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Štepan 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.

Where Štepan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#7972,808as Steven1 in 342972KSteven690
DE Germany#3≈540,000 est.≈1 in 148listedStefan354
NG Nigeria#63≈380,000 est.≈1 in 556—Stephen155
GB United Kingdom#5≈380,000 est.≈1 in 17528KStephen438
RO Romania#144309,900as Ştefan1 in 69310KStefan103
SE Sweden#2372,629as Stefan1 in 14073KStefan188
AT Austria#3≈60,000 est.≈1 in 14731KStefan210
BG Bulgaria#850,950as Стефан1 in 13751KStefan160
CZ Czechia#3548,2961 in 22248KSteven115

972,808 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; NSI — most common given names (population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Štepan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Estonian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, Russia, India, Ukraine

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Stepan, Štěpán

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Štepan under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Štepan mean, and where does it come from?
:(given name) From Russian Степа́н (Stepán, “Stephen”), from Greek Στέφανος (Stéfanos). Doublet of Stephen. :(surname) From Czech Štěpán. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
Is Štepan a male or female name?
Štepan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Štepan have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 973 thousand people named Steven, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Štepan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Štepan is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 222 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Štepan?
In Czechia, the national register counted 48,296 people named Štepan, about 1 in 222 residents.
How common is Štepan compared with other names?
In the United States, Štepan is the 7th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

What do you want to know about Štepan?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1tepan

The 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, “Štepan” — the 7th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Štepan parses inside a full name →