Stëphën
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Stëphën is a male 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: From English Stephen, from Latin Stephanus, from Ancient Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos), from στέφανος (stéphanos, “crown, wreath”), from στέφω (stéphō, “to put round, to surround”). Stëphën is also written Степан in Cyrillic, סטפן in Hebrew and Στεφανου in Greek.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 170(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 240
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 260
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 Stëphën 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)
- #17 (measured from records)
- 10 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 690 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 174 (inferred from the name graph)
972,808 named Steven, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Stëphën in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew and 7 more
(measured from records)11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Stefan in DE Germany, RO Romania, BG Bulgaria and 2 more, Stephen in GB United Kingdom, NG Nigeria and Steven in US United States.
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)- EnglishStephen(measured from records)
- LatinStephanus(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΣτέφανοςStéphanos(measured from records)
- Ancient Greek rootστέφανοςstéphanos“crown, wreath”(measured from records)
- Ancient Greek rootστέφωstéphō“to put round, to surround”(measured from records)
From English Stephen, from Latin Stephanus, from Ancient Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos), from στέφανος (stéphanos, “crown, wreath”), from στέφω (stéphō, “to put round, to surround”).
Cited for this meaning 10
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Stëphën 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #7 | 972,808as Steven | 1 in 342 | 972K | Steven | 690 |
| DE Germany | #3 | ≈480,000 est. | ≈1 in 174 | listed | Stefan | 354 |
| GB United Kingdom | #5 | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 174 | 28K | Stephen | 438 |
| NG Nigeria | #63 | ≈370,000 est. | ≈1 in 634 | — | Stephen | 155 |
| RO Romania | #144 | 309,900as Ştefan | 1 in 69 | 310K | Stefan | 103 |
| AT Austria | #3 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 115 | 31K | Stefan | 210 |
| SE Sweden | #23 | 72,629as Stefan | 1 in 140 | 73K | Stefan | 188 |
| BG Bulgaria | #8 | 50,950as Стефан | 1 in 137 | 51K | Stefan | 160 |
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). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Stëphën mean, and where does it come from?
- From English Stephen, from Latin Stephanus, from Ancient Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos), from στέφανος (stéphanos, “crown, wreath”), from στέφω (stéphō, “to put round, to surround”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 8 other sources.
- Is Stëphën a male or female name?
- Stëphën is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Stëphën?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 973 thousand people named Steven, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Germany, United Kingdom, Nigeria and Romania; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Stëphën?
- In the United States, the national register counted 972,808 people named Steven in 2020, about 1 in 342 residents.
- How common is Stëphën compared with other names?
- In the United States, Stëphën is the 7th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/st%C3%ABph%C3%ABnThe 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, “Stëphën” — ranked 27th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.