Etienne

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Du grec Stephanos, « couronne »; fête de saint Étienne le 26 décembre

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

/ətjɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Etienne is a 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.

rarermore common
  • 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)

≈44,000 people, est.

Sources
379 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Cameroon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in French

Du grec Stephanos, « couronne »; fête de saint Étienne le 26 décembre.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

How Etienne is read(measured from records)

Etienne is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French81%

    Du grec Stephanos, « couronne »; fête de saint Étienne le 26 décembre.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

    Du grec Stephanos, «couronne, couronné».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    From Greek Stephanos, 'crown, wreath'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    Origine grecque, « couronné ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • English8.6%

    French form of Stephen

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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Etienne 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 Etienne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#253≈44,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K85KEtienne379
CM Cameroon#62≈24,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Etienne42
CD Congo - Kinshasa#206≈17,000 est.≈1 in 6K3Etienne22
ZA South Africa—≈13,000 est.≈1 in 4.4K—Etienne63
CN China—≈9,400 est.≈1 in 149K—Etienne16
RW Rwanda#145≈9,300 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Etienne11
BE Belgium#236≈6,700 est.≈1 in 1.8K2.7KEtienne134
US United States—2,1811 in 153K9.1KEtienne298
CH Switzerland#592≈2,000 est.≈1 in 4.1K704Etienne98

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Etienne is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Germany, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Étienne, Etiënne, Etiénne, Etienné, Ètienne

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Chile, Mexico

    Also written Étienne, E'Tienne, Etiènne

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Etiënne, Étienne, Etiénne

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Étienne

  • English (South Africa) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States

    Also written Etiénne

  • Finnish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, United States

    Also written Étienne

86 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Stephanus I, b. 300Stephen IV, b. 770Stephen II of Hungary, b. 1101Stephen III of Hungary, b. 1147Innocent VI, b. 1282Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, b. 1708Stéphane Mallarmé, b. 1842Étienne Tshisekedi, b. 1932Gnassingbé Eyadéma, b. 1935William Sami Étienne Grigahcine, b. 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)

InformalBonjour Etienne,Hi Etienne, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 92 sources across 49 countries.

Official registers attesting Etienne
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202485K#757
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202K#7,099
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020198#7,099
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)1957185#795
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202527—

Reference works 8

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Is Etienne a male or female name?
Etienne 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.
How do you pronounce Etienne?
A machine transcription gives /ətjɛn/ (IPA) for French.
What does the name Etienne mean?
Recorded meaning: Du grec Stephanos, « couronne »; fête de saint Étienne le 26 décembre.
In which country does Etienne have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Etienne in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled etienne.
How common is the name Etienne?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,181 people named Etienne in 2020, about 1 in 153 thousand residents.
How common is Etienne compared with other names?
In France, Etienne is the 253rd most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.

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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, “Etienne” — the 253rd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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