Stig

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

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)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Stig is read●(measured from records)

Stig is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

• Danish28%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Stig in Danish.

• Swedish22%

  a path, a trail (in nature and narrow)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  Stig är ett nordiskt namn, motsvarande fornvästnordiskt Stígr, bildat till verbet stíga ’gå, vandra’. Namnet var ursprungligen ett danskt binamn, som senare utvecklades till förnamn. Kända namnbärare är formgivaren Stig Lindberg (1916–82) och författaren Stieg Larsson (1954–2004). I den rikssvenska almanackan 17 december och den finlandssvenska 5 juni.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• Norwegian21%

  imperative of stige

  as a word·recorded as Norwegian Bokmål·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English11%

  Someone from a poor background, with poor dress sense.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

Stig is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian given name12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Russia, United States, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Стиг, Stieg, Стіг, Stih

• Croatian given name8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Croatia, Sweden, Finland

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

  Also written Стиг

46 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.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Stig is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, aus dem Dänischen entlehnter männl.

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Scandinavian: from the Old Norse personal name Stígr , a short form of Stígandr (see STIAN ).

  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)

• Stig Olinb. 1920SESwedish actor, director and musician (1920–2008)
• Stig Andersonb. 1931SESwedish lyricist, music publisher, composer, music executive, manager for ABBA, teacher (1931-1997)
• Stig Engströmb. 1934SESwedish man who appears in the investigation of the murder of Olof Palme (1934-2000)
• Stig Engströmb. 1942SESwedish actor
• Stig Blomqvistb. 1946SESwedish rally driver, winner of the 1984 World Rally Championship for Drivers
• Stig Henrik Hoffb. 1965NONorwegian actor
• Stig Inge Bjørnebyeb. 1969NONorwegian association football player and manager
• Stig Tøftingb. 1969DKDanish footballer
• Stig Rästab. 1980EEEstonian singer and songwriter (born 1980)
• Stig-André Bergeb. 1983NONorwegian wrestler

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)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Stig?

A machine transcription gives /sd̥i/ (IPA) for Danish.

What does the name Stig mean, and where does it come from?

a path, a trail (in nature and narrow) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

In which country does Stig have the most bearers?

In Sweden, the national register counted about 44 thousand people named Stig, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stig.

Where is Stig most common?

Stig is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 231 people carrying it.

Is Stig a male or female name?

Stig 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 common is the name Stig?

In Sweden, the national register counted 44,136 people named Stig, about 1 in 231 residents.

How common is Stig compared with other names?

In Sweden, Stig is the 168th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.