Stefana
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Feminine form of Stephen, from Greek Stephanos, “crown”; linked to St Stephen, feast day 26 Dec
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/stɛfɑnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stefana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 1.8K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
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 Stefana 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.
- Romania (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
18,267 people, 2023
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Стефана in BG Bulgaria, MK North Macedonia.
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)
Feminine form of Stephen, from Greek Stephanos, “crown”; linked to St Stephen, feast day 26 Dec.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stefana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #593 | 18,267 | 1 in 1.2K | 18K | Stefana | 62 |
| BG Bulgaria | #419 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Стефана | 43 |
| RS Serbia | #592 | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | listed | Stefana | 20 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 97K | listed | Stefana | 19 |
| US United States | — | 266 | 1 in 1.3M | 263 | Stefana | 101 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 149as Стефана | 1 in 14K | 149 | Стефана | 4 |
| MD Moldova | — | 74 | 1 in 45K | 74 | — | 3 |
18,267 people counted by DEPABD — name-day population snapshot, 2023. 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: DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the il-grande-libro-nomi-bebe-2020 register; State Statistical Office — living population names; e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Stefana 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 French, Forme féminine de Stefan/Stéphane.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Stefana Saalmüller Armbrusterb. 1874GBbotanical collector and donator (1874–1978)
- Stefana Stoĭkovab. 1922BGBulgarian ethnologist
- Stefana Sabinb. 1955DEGerman specialist in literature and author
- Stefana McClureb. 1959IEIrish artist (born 1959)
- Stefana Prokovićb. 1986RSSerbian volleyball player
- Stefana Veljkovićb. 1990RSSerbian volleyball player
- Stefana Broadbenttech anthropologist, cognitive scientist, ethnographer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 48 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | DEPABD — name-day population snapshot | 2023 | 18K | — |
| RO Romania | DEPABD — resident population names | 2023 | 18K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 263 | #31,941 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 25 | #1,810 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #31,941 |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Stefana mean, and where does it come from?
- Feminine form of Stephen, from Greek Stephanos, “crown”; linked to St Stephen, feast day 26 Dec. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- How do you pronounce Stefana?
- A machine transcription gives /stɛfɑnə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Stefana a male or female name?
- Stefana is a female 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.
- What are other forms of the name Stefana?
- In the etymology graph, Stephanie, Fanny and Stefanie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Stefana have the most bearers?
- In Romania, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Stefana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stefana.
- Where is Stefana most common?
- Stefana is densest in Romania, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Stefana?
- In Romania, the national register counted 18,267 people named Stefana in 2023, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Stefana compared with other names?
- In Romania, Stefana is the 593rd most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stefanaThe 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, “Stefana” — the 593rd most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.