Stepanov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Stepanov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Russian Степа́нов (Stepánov).
- RURussia≈1 in 1.2Kas Степанов(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 3.8Kas Степанов
- BYBelarus≈1 in 12Kas Степанов
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 Stepanov 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #831 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 named Степанов, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Степанов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 3 more.
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)
Borrowed from Russian Степа́нов (Stepánov).
Sources 1
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stepanov 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #46 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Степанов | 174 |
| UA Ukraine | #304 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Степанов | 52 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Степанов | 9 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Степанов | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 825 | 1 in 46K | 822 | Stepanov | 13 |
| BY Belarus | #222 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Степанов | 24 |
| EE Estonia | #30 | 634 | 1 in 1.9K | 634 | Степанов | 29 |
| LV Latvia | #902 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Stepanov | 19 |
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: the russian-surnames-unbegaun-1972 register; Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Stepanov 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 English, A transliteration of the Russian surname Степанов (Stepanov).
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)
- Vyacheslav Vassilievich Stepanovb. 1889RURussian mathematician (1889–1950)
- Vasilijs Stepanovsb. 1927LVnot in their usual nameSoviet weightlifter (1927–2011)
- Yuri Stepanovb. 1932RUSoviet track and field athlete (1932–1963)
- Alexander Stepanovb. 1950RURussian programmer
- Yuri Stepanovb. 1967RURussian actor (1967–2010)
- Igors Stepanovsb. 1976LVnot in their usual nameLatvian football player (born 1976)
- Andrei Stepanovb. 1979EEEstonian footballer (born 1979)
- Serghei Stepanovb. 1984MDMoldovan saxophonist
- Vasiliy Stepanovb. 1986RURussian actor
- Vasilisa Stepanovab. 1993RUnot in their usual nameRussian rower
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 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 822 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 822 | #3,775 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 634 | #35 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 634 | #35 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 39 | #2,625 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #291,213 |
| RU Russia | Russian Surnames (Unbegaun, 1972) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Stepanov mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Russian Степа́нов (Stepánov). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Stepanov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 116 thousand people named Степанов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Stepanov most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stepanov is densest in Estonia — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Stepanov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 825 people named Stepanov in 2026, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
- How common is Stepanov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Stepanov is the 46th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stepanovThe 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, “Stepanov” — the 46th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.