Stefana

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Stefana is a given name, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 42nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Hungarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Stephen, from Greek Stephanos, “crown”; linked to St Stephen, feast day 26 Dec.

rarermore common
  • RORomania1 in 1.2K◐
  • BGBulgaria1 in 14K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈19K ●

across 13 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
75 ●

6.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.2K ◐

Romania

Spellings & scripts●

StefanaLatin · English●38K records
СтефанаCyrillic · Bulgarian●1.6K records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Стефана in BG Bulgaria, MK North Macedonia, UA Ukraine and 2 more and Štefana in HR Croatia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

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●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Stefana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania#4218,267△645 rec.1 in 1.2K18KStefana54
BG Bulgaria#3953,1412.4K rec.——Стефана40
RS Serbia#572413186 rec.—listedStefana19
US United States—2631.6K rec.1 in 1.3M263Stefana75
IT Italy—228279 rec.—listedStefana22
DE Germany—203208 rec.—listedStefana55
CZ Czechia—182△1 rec.1 in 59K182Stefana3
ES Spain—18296 rec.1 in 275K184Stefana17
NL Netherlands—159△30 rec.1 in 109K159Stefana6
GB United Kingdom—153133 rec.——Stefana26
MK North Macedonia—1490 rec.1 in 14K149Стефана4
UA Ukraine—138148 rec.——Стефана8

Roughly 18K people in Romania bear this name (about 1 in 1.2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English38K46%
  • Hungarian37K43%
  • Bulgarian1.6K2%
  • Spanish1.3K1%
  • Romanian1.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English38,46746%
Hungarian36,61443%
Bulgarian1,6072%
Spanish1,2591%
Romanian1,1381%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Stefana is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name2.4K records spelled Stefana11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, United States, Romania

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ştefana, Stefaña, Stéfana, Stefanã, Ștefana

  • French given name823 records spelled Stefana5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Stéfana, Ştefana, Ștefana

  • Italian given name663 records spelled Stefana3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom

    Also written Ştefana

  • a separate given name186 records spelled Stefana3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania

    Also written Ștefana, Ştefana

  • Danish given name173 records spelled Stefana7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Icelandic

    Also written Ştefana, Ștefana

  • Indonesian given name145 records spelled Stefana2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Romania

    Also written Ştefana

  • Turkish given name62 records spelled Stefana4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Türkiye

    Also written Ştefana, Ștefana

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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.

Over time●

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Stefana in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199914
200015
200115
200215
200315
200415
200516
200617
200717
200820
200920
201022
201122
201223
201322
201422
201525
201626
201726
201827
201927
202028

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Stefana Saalmüller Armbruster, b. 1874Stefana Stoĭkova, b. 1922Stefana Sabin, b. 1955Stefana McClure, b. 1959Stefana Proković, b. 1986Stefana Veljković, b. 1990

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●

Attested in 48 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Stefana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
RO RomaniaDEPABD — name-day population snapshot202318K—
RO RomaniaDEPABD — resident population names202318K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020263#31,941
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—184#4,367
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—182#9,694
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—159#4,156
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—81#3,520
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—79#26,033
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202252—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—50#13,574
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—49#64,892
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—48#48,833

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 2026-09-12 data build · 138 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Stefana?
We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Stefana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Stefana have the most bearers?
We estimate about 18 thousand people bear Stefana in Romania, more than in any other country in our records, 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 Stefana compared with other names?
In Romania, Stefana is the 42nd most common given name of 29,954 given names recorded there.
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 does the name Stefana mean?
Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Stephen, from Greek Stephanos, “crown”; linked to St Stephen, feast day 26 Dec.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 42nd most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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