Stev
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/stɛv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stev is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: bouchon ; tampon.
- DEGermany≈1 in 75K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2M
- NGNigeria≈1 in 199K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
bouchon ; tampon
Sources 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stev 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Stev | 12 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 75K | listed | Stev | 71 |
| CO Colombia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 258K | — | Stev | 25 |
| US United States | 168 | 1 in 2M | 166 | Stev | 156 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 240K | — | Stev | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 239K | — | Stev | 8 |
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. 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)
Stev 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 Breton, bouchon ; tampon
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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.
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 9 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 166 | #42,623 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #42,623 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Stev mean, and where does it come from?
- bouchon ; tampon Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- How do you pronounce Stev?
- A machine transcription gives /stɛv/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Stev a male or female name?
- Stev 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.
- In which country does Stev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Stev in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stev.
- How common is the name Stev?
- In the United States, the national register counted 168 people named Stev in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Stev?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stevThe 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, “Stev”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.