Stefanija
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Stephanie
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
/s̪t̪efanija/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stefanija is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 557(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 817
- MKNorth Macedonia≈1 in 2.2K
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 557 (inferred from the name graph)
7,585 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a female given name, equivalent to English Stephanie
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Stefanija 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | — | 7,585 | 1 in 557 | 7.6K | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 2,573 | 1 in 817 | 2.6K | Stefanija | 3 |
| MK North Macedonia | #279 | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Stefanija | 6 |
| LV Latvia | — | 708 | 1 in 2.7K | 713 | Stefanija | 18 |
| LT Lithuania | #569 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | 20K | Stefanija | 17 |
7,585 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: Registrų centras — top-50 given names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). 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)Stefanija is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Stefania Turkevych-Lukiianovychb. 1898UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian pianist, composer, and musicologist (1898-1977)
- Stefanija Ladigienėb. 1901LTLithuanian politician
- Stefania Pavlyshynb. 1930UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian composer
- Stefaniia Shabaturab. 1938UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian textile artist and human rights activist (1938–2014)
- Stefanija Statkuvienėb. 1962LTathletics competitor
- Stefaniya Nadymovab. 1994RUnot in their usual nameRussian ski jumper and nordic combined skier
- Stefania DovhanUAnot in their usual nameUkrainian-American singer
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)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)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — top-50 given names | — | 20K | #34 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 176 | #1,239 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 147 | #1,014 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 145 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 86 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 53 | #2,108 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 52 | #1,051 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 45 | #1,124 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 38 | #1,234 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 32 | #1,337 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 31 | #1,346 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 30 | #1,284 |
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 Stefanija mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Stephanie Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Stefanija?
- In the etymology graph, Stephanie, Stefanie and Stefania are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Stefanija?
- A machine transcription gives /s̪t̪efanija/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Stefanija a male or female name?
- Stefanija is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Lithuania (Registrų centras).
- In which country does Stefanija have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 7.6 thousand people named Stefanija, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Stefanija most common?
- Stefanija is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 557 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Stefanija?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 7,585 people named Stefanija in 2021, about 1 in 557 residents.
- How common is Stefanija compared with other names?
- In North Macedonia, Stefanija is the 279th most common given name of 2,588 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/stefanijaThe 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, “Stefanija” — the 279th most common given name in North Macedonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.