Stefania

given name · English · Latin script

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

Stefania is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Romania it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Polish, 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 170◐
  • USUnited States1 in 506
  • HRCroatia1 in 557

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

≈1.2M ●

across 17 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
223 ●

343K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 140 ◐

Lithuania

Spellings & scripts●

StefaniaLatin · English●287K records
СтефаніяCyrillic · Ukrainian●146K records
ΣτεφανίαGreek · Greek●74 records

10 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Stephania in BR Brazil, CO Colombia, MX Mexico and 4 more, Стефания in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye, Стефанія in UA Ukraine and Štefanija 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 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Stefania is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—657,151△35K rec.1 in 506657KStefania223
FR France—238,690△3 rec.1 in 284239K—2
UA Ukraine#124196,794196K rec.—listedСтефанія30
RO Romania#14124,996△524 rec.1 in 170125KStefania51
PL Poland#16866,240△4.8K rec.1 in 57866KStefania88
RU Russia#48850,78024K rec.—#177Стефания130
BR Brazil—30,518△1.2K rec.1 in 6.9K38KStephania71
IT Italy#33423,70213K rec.—62Stefania119
LT Lithuania—19,542△4 rec.1 in 14020KStefania6
CO Colombia#5747,9441.5K rec.——Stephania77
HR Croatia#1237,58529K rec.1 in 5577.6KŠtefanija37
MX Mexico—7,4035K rec.—24Stephania115

Roughly 657K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 506). 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●

  • English287K22%
  • Polish278K22%
  • Hungarian251K20%
  • Spanish236K18%
  • Italian82K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English286,98222%
Polish277,98122%
Hungarian250,78520%
Spanish235,96618%
Italian82,0846%

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◐

Stefania is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name419K records spelled Stefania16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Italy, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese

    Also written Stefanía, Stefanìa, Ştefania, S'Tefania, Ștefania

  • Romanian given name9.7K records spelled Stefania7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Italy, United States, Moldova

    Also written Ștefania, Stefánia

  • Indonesian given name5.3K records spelled Stefania11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Indonesia, United States, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ştefania, Ștefania, Stefanía, Štefánia, Stefañia

  • Hindi given name5.2K records spelled Stefania18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, Romania

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Stefanía, Ștefania, Ştefania, Stefänïä, Štefania

  • Icelandic given name3.6K records spelled Stefania17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Italy

    Languages: Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Stefanía, Stefánia, Ștefania, Ştefania

  • a separate given name2.7K records spelled Stefania11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Romania, Ecuador

    Also written Ștefania, Ştefania, Stefanía, Stefânia, Stefanìâ

56 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●

Stefania is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Polish, a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Stephanie

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, a female given name, equivalent to English Stephanie

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, Stephanie

    as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)

  • In French, Forme féminine de Stéphane.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • Incoronata

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

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●

02040601950200060 · 2004

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Stefania in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1901–2025
Yearrecords
19015
19055
19067
19087
190911
191013
19117
191212
191320
191426
191524
191637
191738
191836
191939
192036
192123
192217
192313
192417
19259
19279
19286
19558
19575
19609
19616
19638
196411
19656
196610
196710
196814
196910
197024
197111
197218
197328
197414
197519
197615
197727
197828
197928
198028
198129
198236
198332
198432
198534
198633
198727
198838
198943
199039
199156
199259
199341
199451
199534
199643
199745
199834
199939
200051
200158
200250
200351
200460
200543
200647
200741
200827
200948
201046
201140
201242
201336
201440
201546
201649
201734
201850
201946
202038
202148
202236
202356
202446
202525

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 90 years between 1901–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

17001800190020002100Stéphanie de Beauharnais, b. 1789Stefania Wilczyńska, b. 1886Stefania Sandrelli, b. 1946Stefania Casini, b. 1948Stefania Belmondo, b. 1969Fanny Cadeo, b. 1970Stefania Rocca, b. 1971Stefania Spampinato, b. 1982Stefania LaVie Owen, b. 1997Stefania, b. 2002

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 79 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Stefania
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
RO RomaniaDEPABD — name-day population snapshot2023125K—
RO RomaniaDEPABD — resident population names2023125K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202666K#47
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—39K#112
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20223.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.9K#3,257
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20243.7K#423
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.7K#4,885
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—3.6K#4,090
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.9K#1,821
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.6K#1,048
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—600#424

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 647 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Stefania?
We estimate roughly 1.2 million people bear Stefania (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.
In which country does Stefania have the most bearers?
We estimate about 657 thousand people bear Stefania in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled stefania.
Where is Stefania most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stefania is densest in Lithuania — about 1 in 140 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Stefania compared with other names?
In Romania, Stefania is the 14th most common given name of 29,954 given names recorded there.
Is Stefania a male or female name?
Stefania 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 Stefania 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, “Stefania” — the 14th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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