Boy · Greek
Stefan
Say it: STEH-fahn
Meaning
From Greek stephanos 'crown, wreath'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Taken as a title-like name by every Nemanjić ruler, it remains a leading Serbian name.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1990s
In the United States
- 20,045 babies given this name since 1910
- At its height in 1991, about 1 in 2,800 boys
- 256 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Стефан
| Polish | Stefan |
|---|---|
| Czech | Štěpán |
| Russian | Stepan |
| Ukrainian | Stepan |
| Croatian | Stjepan |
| Greek | Stephanos |
| English | Stephen |
| Hungarian | István |
Famous bearers
- Stefan Nemanja, founder of medieval Serbia
- Stefan Dušan, Emperor of the Serbs
- Stefan Żeromski, Polish writer
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Where this comes from
- Royal and noble genealogies
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Calendars of saints and name days
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.