Stelian
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/stelijan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stelian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Romanian Stelian.
- RORomania≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova1 in 4.3K
- ISIceland1 in 58K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Romanian Stelian.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stelian 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 | #268 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Stelian | 80 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 73K | 1 | Stelian | 21 |
| MD Moldova | #587 | 786 | 1 in 4.3K | 786 | Stelian | 14 |
| ES Spain | — | 357 | 1 in 140K | 378 | Stelian | 40 |
| US United States | — | 127 | 1 in 2.6M | 126 | Stelian | 95 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 126K | 1 | Stelian | 9 |
| IS Iceland | — | 6 | 1 in 58K | 6 | — | — |
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: e-services.md — living population register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Stelian Popescub. 1874ROMinister of Justice, Owner of newspaper "Universul", Romanian journalist (1874-1954)
- Stelian Moculescub. 1950RORomanian volleyball player
- Stelică Morcovb. 1951ROnot in their usual nameOlympic wrestler
- Stelian Tănaseb. 1952RORomanian activist
- Stelian Cristian Ionb. 1977RORomanian politician
- Stelian Stancub. 1981RORomanian footballer
- Stelian Burceab. 1983RORomanian rugby union player
- Stelian Bujduveanub. 1989RORomanian politician
- Steliano Filipb. 1994ROnot in their usual nameRomanian footballer
- Stelian Urianactor
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 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 70 | #35,492 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 70 | #35,173 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #160,650 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Stelian mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Romanian Stelian. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- What are other forms of the name Stelian?
- In the etymology graph, Stelios is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Stelian?
- A machine transcription gives /stelijan/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- Is Stelian a male or female name?
- Stelian 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 Stelian have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.8 thousand people named Stelian in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stelian.
- How common is the name Stelian?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 786 people named Stelian, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Stelian compared with other names?
- In Romania, Stelian is the 268th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Stelian?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stelianThe 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, “Stelian” — the 268th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.