Stepanova
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries
/sʲtʲɪpan̪əvə/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from степанова
Stepanova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common surname.
- EEEstonia1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- LVLatvia≈1 in 2.1Kfew records
- CZCzechia1 in 3K
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 Stepanova 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)
- #727 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 named Степанова, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Степанова in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more and Štěpánová in CZ Czechia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Stepanova 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 | #30 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 953 | — | Степанова | 174 |
| UA Ukraine | #221 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Степанова | 48 |
| BY Belarus | #79 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Степанова | 23 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #151 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Степанова | 41 |
| CZ Czechia | #459 | 3,550 | 1 in 3K | 3.5K | Štěpánová | 45 |
| LV Latvia | #573 | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Stepanova | 27 |
| EE Estonia | #676 | 641 | 1 in 1.9K | 641 | Stepanova | 14 |
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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Larin Paraskeb. 1832RUnot in their usual nameIzhorian oral poet (1833-1904)
- Varvara Stepanovab. 1894RURussian artist (1894-1958)
- Angelina Stepanovab. 1905RUSoviet and Russian actress (1905-2000)
- Mariya Stepanovab. 1972RURussian poet and essayist
- Maria Stepanovab. 1979RURussian basketball player (born 1979)
- Yuliya Stepanovab. 1986RURussian distance runner
- Inna Stepanovab. 1990RURussian archer
- Alexandra Stepanovab. 1995RURussian ice dancer
- Nasty Stenb. 1995RUnot in their usual name1995- Russian model
- Veronika Stepanovab. 2001RURussian cross-country skier
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 641 | #44 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #186,683 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2 | #23,746 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Stepanova?
- In Russian /sʲtʲɪpan̪əvə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Stepanova have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 151 thousand people named Степанова in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Stepanova most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stepanova 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 Stepanova?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 3,550 people named Stepanova, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Stepanova compared with other names?
- In Russia, Stepanova is the 30th 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/stepanovaThe 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, “Stepanova” — the 30th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.