Stefanija
given name · Lithuanian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Stefanija is a given name, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 66th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Lithuanian and Croatian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Stephanie.
- LTLithuania1 in 140◐
- HRCroatia1 in 557
- SISlovenia1 in 817
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈31K ●
- Sources
- 37 ●
- 1 in 140 ◐
across 9 countries
744 records
Official registry-verified
Lithuania
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Stefānija in LV Latvia, RU Russia.
Meaning & origin●
a female given name, equivalent to English Stephanie
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #66 | 19,542△ | 79 rec. | 1 in 140 | 20K | Stefanija | 18 |
| HR Croatia | — | 7,585 | — | 1 in 557 | 7.6K | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 2,573△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 817 | 2.6K | Stefanija | 3 |
| LV Latvia | #674 | 708△ | 12 rec. | 1 in 2.7K | 713 | Stefānija | 12 |
| US United States | — | 310 | 258 rec. | — | — | Stefanija | 34 |
| DE Germany | — | 162 | 140 rec. | — | 1 | Stefanija | 37 |
| AU Australia | — | 119 | 115 rec. | — | 1 | Stefanija | 27 |
| AT Austria | — | 92 | 19 rec. | — | 21 | Stefanija | 10 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 76 | 38 rec. | — | — | Stefanija | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | 59△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 173K | 59 | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 22 | 21 rec. | — | listed | Stefanija | 8 |
| PL Poland | — | 20△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 20 | — | 1 |
Roughly 20K people in Lithuania bear this name (about 1 in 140). 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●
- Lithuanian59K67%
- Croatian20K23%
- Hungarian7.3K8%
- English4351%
- German2731%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lithuanian | 58,903 | 67% |
| Croatian | 19,867 | 23% |
| Hungarian | 7,322 | 8% |
| English | 435 | 1% |
| German | 273 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Stefanija 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 46 |
| 2000 | 45 |
| 2001 | 45 |
| 2002 | 42 |
| 2003 | 41 |
| 2004 | 42 |
| 2005 | 41 |
| 2006 | 41 |
| 2007 | 39 |
| 2008 | 41 |
| 2009 | 37 |
| 2010 | 37 |
| 2011 | 37 |
| 2012 | 37 |
| 2013 | 36 |
| 2014 | 37 |
| 2015 | 35 |
| 2016 | 34 |
| 2017 | 39 |
| 2018 | 43 |
| 2019 | 42 |
| 2020 | 45 |
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●
- Stefania Turkevych-Lukiianovychb. 1898UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian pianist, composer, and musicologist (1898-1977)
- Stefanija Ladigienėb. 1901LTLithuanian politician
- Stefania Pavlyshynb. 1930UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian composer
- Stefaniia Shabaturab. 1938UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian textile artist and human rights activist (1938–2014)
- Stefanija Statkuvienėb. 1962LTathletics competitor
- Stefaniya Nadymovab. 1994RUnot in their usual nameRussian ski jumper and nordic combined skier
- Stefania DovhanUAnot in their usual nameUkrainian-American singer
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 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — top-50 given names | — | 20K | #34 |
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai | — | 20K | #34 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 176 | #1,239 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 147 | #1,014 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 145 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 86 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 59 | #12,185 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 53 | #2,108 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 52 | #1,051 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 46 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 45 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 45 | #1,124 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 88 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Stefanija?
- We estimate roughly 31 thousand people bear Stefanija (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Stefanija have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 20 thousand people bear Stefanija in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled stefanija.
- Where is Stefanija most common?
- Stefanija is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 140 people carrying it.
- How common is Stefanija compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Stefanija is the 66th most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.
- Is Stefanija a male or female name?
- Stefanija 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 Stefanija mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Stephanie
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About this data
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, “Stefanija” — the 66th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.