Stephane
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Du grec Stéphanos « couronne, couronné »; fêté le 26 décembre (saint Étienne/Stephanus)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Stephane 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.
- FRFrance≈1 in 339(inferred from the name graph)
- 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 Stephane 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 339 (inferred from the name graph)
972,808 named Steven, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
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, 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)
Du grec Stéphanos « couronne, couronné »; fêté le 26 décembre (saint Étienne/Stephanus).
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stephane 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 | 1 | 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 |
| FR France | #3 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 339 | 309K | Stephane | 427 |
| 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 |
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); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Stephane is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Du grec ancien, signifie « couronné ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, An Ancient Greek headdress like a coronet.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative singular of Stephanus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Stéphane Mallarméb. 1842FRFrench Symbolist poet (1842–1898)
- Nicolas Sarkozyb. 1955FRnot in their usual name23rd president of the French Republic from 2007 to 2012
- Stéphane Dionb. 1955CACanadian politician
- Stéphane Le Follb. 1960FRFrench politician
- Stéphane Richardb. 1961FRFrench businessman
- Charbb. 1967FRnot in their usual nameFrench caricaturist and journalist (1967-2015)
- Stéphane Chapuisatb. 1969CHSwiss footballer
- Stéphane Guivarc'hb. 1970FRFrench footballer (born 1970)
- Stéphane Henchozb. 1974CHSwiss footballer and manager (born 1974)
- Stéphane Séjournéb. 1985FRFrench politician (born 1985)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.1K | #4,650 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #4,650 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2021 | 210 | #3,092 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 85 | #9,574 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 49 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2009 | 3 | #1,106 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2009 | 1 | #2,157 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2012 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2001 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Stephane mean?
- Recorded meaning: Du grec Stéphanos « couronne, couronné »; fêté le 26 décembre (saint Étienne/Stephanus).
- Is Stephane a male or female name?
- Stephane 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 Stephane 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.
- How common is the name Stephane?
- In the United States, the national register counted 972,808 people named Steven in 2020, about 1 in 342 residents.
- How common is Stephane compared with other names?
- In the United States, Stephane 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/stephaneThe 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, “Stephane” — the 7th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.