Stefano

given name · Italian · Latin script

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

Stefano is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Costa Rica it is the 13th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Italian and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Greek Stephanos, “crown”; linked to St Stephen, feast day 26 Dec.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly1 in 237◐
  • CLChile1 in 284
  • COColombia1 in 344

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

≈810K ●

across 12 countries

#583 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
389 ●

2.8M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 407 ◐

Costa Rica

Spellings & scripts●

EstebanLatin · Spanish●3.2M records
СтефаноCyrillic · Russian●294 records
스테파노Hangul · Korean●9 records
ΣτέφανοGreek · Greek●2 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Esteban in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, CL Chile and 6 more, Stephen in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 5 more and Estevao in BR Brazil, IN India.

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●

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 Stefano is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#1021,698,3771M rec.—6.3KEsteban164
US United States#743664,892398K rec.1 in 500665KStephen389
MX Mexico#158335,066325K rec.—847Esteban209
CL Chile#51316,68724K rec.—265Esteban144
PE Peru#151213,408200K rec.——Esteban89
IT Italy#22213,358206K rec.—566Stefano261
CO Colombia#62180,94368K rec.—17Esteban186
VE Venezuela#222113,64667K rec.——Esteban83
GB United Kingdom#56035,20020K rec.—4Stephen146
FR France—30,800△10K rec.1 in 2.2K31KStefano241
ES Spain#16928,434125K rec.1 in 1.8K43KEsteban194
BR Brazil#76422,30473K rec.1 in 9.5K22KEstevao134

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

Languages●

  • Italian205K37%
  • Spanish95K17%
  • German59K11%
  • Portuguese58K10%
  • English55K10%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Italian205,29637%
Spanish94,80317%
German59,31311%
Portuguese57,73610%
English54,80110%

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◐

Stefano is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name159K records spelled Stefano11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Netherlands, Germany

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Stéfano, Stefáno, Stefàno, Stefanò

  • a separate given name5.6K records spelled Stefano4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Stéfano, Stefàno, Stefáno

  • Hindi given name4.6K records spelled Stefano6 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Stefáno

  • Arabic given name4.3K records spelled Stefano11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written סטפנו, Stefáno, Stefanö, Stęfano, Stéfano

  • Indonesian given name3.1K records spelled Stefano3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Indonesia, United States, Spain

    Also written Stéfano, Stefäno

  • Finnish given name2.9K records spelled Stefano10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Finland, Hungary, Slovenia

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written S̶t̶e̶f̶a̶n̶o̶, Stefáno, Stefanõ, Stefánó, Stéfano

  • Danish given name2.6K records spelled Stefano5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Italy, Norway, United States

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Stéfano

  • Swahili given name2.4K records spelled Stefano14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, United States, Nigeria, South Africa

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Yoruba

    Also written Stephen, Stephén, Stéphen, Stéfano

  • Turkish given name2.0K records spelled Stefano7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Türkiye, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Stefáno, Stéfano, Stefàno, Stéfàno

50 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●

Stefano 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 Italian, Stephen

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

  • In German, in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom., italienische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Italian, dal greco Stéphanos, 'corona, corona d'onore'.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In Italian, Dal greco stephanos, 'corona, ghirlanda'.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In Italian, forma italiana de Stephanus; Estêvão

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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●

025507510019201940196019802000202090 · 1993

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Stefano in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1914–2025
Yearrecords
19147
19175
19186
19235
19295
19506
19515
19549
19555
19565
19575
19605
196111
196214
196320
196412
196512
196617
196718
196821
196925
197025
197118
197222
197320
197422
197527
197621
197719
197828
197921
198018
198122
198222
198340
198434
198556
198644
198743
198842
198957
199061
199188
199267
199390
199472
199568
199674
199761
199876
199977
200067
200178
200265
200366
200468
200583
200670
200758
200874
200957
201063
201165
201270
201361
201454
201551
201661
201752
201845
201948
202040
202148
202270
202369
202462
202552

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 77 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

0500100015002000Saint Stephen, b. 1Stephanus II, b. 700Pietro Mascagni, b. 1863Totò, b. 1898Steno, b. 1917Stefano Tacconi, b. 1957Stefano Pioli, b. 1965Stefano Dionisi, b. 1966Stephen Blackehart, b. 1967Stefano Sensi, b. 1995
  • Saint Stephenb. 1GRnot in their usual nameDeacon, martyr, and saint
  • Stephanus IIb. 700ITnot in their usual namepriest of Rome elected pope in March 752
  • Pietro Mascagnib. 1863ITnot in their usual nameItalian composer known for operas (1863–1945)
  • Totòb. 1898ITnot in their usual nameItalian actor (1898–1967)
  • Stenob. 1917ITnot in their usual nameItalian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer (1917–1988)
  • Stefano Tacconib. 1957ITItalian association football player
  • Stefano Piolib. 1965ITItalian association football player and manager
  • Stefano Dionisib. 1966ITItalian actor
  • Stephen Blackehartb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
  • Stefano Sensib. 1995ITItalian association football player

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 84 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Stefano
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.3K#4,337
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20243.8K#331
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20223K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3K#3,895
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—2.8K#4,875
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.1K#1,657
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.9K#809
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.3K#20,617
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.2K#20,087
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.2K#21,853
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.2K#1,910
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—754—

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 692 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Stefano?
We estimate roughly 810 thousand people bear Stefano (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Stefano have the most bearers?
Stefano is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled esteban.
How common is Stefano compared with other names?
In Argentina, Stefano is the 102nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Stefano a male or female name?
Stefano is a male 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 Stefano mean?
Recorded meaning: 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, “Stefano” — the 102nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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