Stepan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: "king." Russianization of Stephen
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/stɛpən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stepan 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.
- 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 Stepan 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)
- Sources
- 690 (measured from records)
- 1 in 222 (inferred from the name graph)
972,808 named Steven, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
"king." Russianization of Stephen.
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stepan 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 | ≈540,000 est. | ≈1 in 148 | listed | Stefan | 354 |
| NG Nigeria | #63 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 556 | — | Stephen | 155 |
| GB United Kingdom | #5 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 175 | 28K | Stephen | 438 |
| RO Romania | #144 | 309,900as Ştefan | 1 in 69 | 310K | Stefan | 103 |
| SE Sweden | #23 | 72,629as Stefan | 1 in 140 | 73K | Stefan | 188 |
| AT Austria | #3 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 147 | 31K | Stefan | 210 |
| BG Bulgaria | #8 | 50,950as Стефан | 1 in 137 | 51K | Stefan | 160 |
| CZ Czechia | #35 | 48,296 | 1 in 222 | 48K | Steven | 115 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Stepan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma eslava de Stefan
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In English, A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian male given name Степа́н (Stepán).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, = Stjepan, gen. -ana m ... < lat. Stephânus < gr. Στέφανος »vijenac«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
The usual Russian form of STEPHAN .
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)
- Stenka Razinb. 1630RUnot in their usual nameCossack leader (c. 1630 - 1671)
- Stepan Krasheninnikovb. 1711RURussian scientist (1711-1755)
- Stepan Osipovich Makarovb. 1849UARussian admiral
- Stepa Stepanovićb. 1856RSnot in their usual nameSerbian field marshal (1856-1929)
- Stephen Timoshenkob. 1878USnot in their usual nameUkrainian & American engineer (1878–1972)
- Stepan Banderab. 1909UAUkrainian nationalist leader (1909–1959)
- Stepan Krylovb. 1910RUSoviet actor (1910-1998)
- Stepan Kubivb. 1962UAUkrainian central banker
- Stepan Atayanb. 1966UZfootballer
- Stepan Putilob. 1998BYBelarusian blogger
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)
Attested in 70 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #9,044 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 183 | #5,566 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 50 | #1,943 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 49 | — |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 25 | #1,748 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 6 | #1,820 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 1 | #3,389 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2019 | — | #196 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2011 | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Stepan mean, and where does it come from?
- "king." Russianization of Stephen. Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- How do you pronounce Stepan?
- A machine transcription gives /stɛpən/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- Is Stepan a male or female name?
- Stepan 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.
- What are other forms of the name Stepan?
- In the etymology graph, Steven, Stephen and Esteban are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Stepan 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 Stepan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stepan 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 Stepan?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 48,296 people named Stepan, about 1 in 222 residents.
- How common is Stepan compared with other names?
- In the United States, Stepan 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/stepanThe 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, “Stepan” — the 7th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.