Steffen

given name · German · Latin script

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

Steffen is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 6th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and Danish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Greek Stephanos ‘wreath, crown’; plate shows labial fricative variation in the spelling.

rarermore common
  • RORomania1 in 69◐
  • DEGermany1 in 74
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 80

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

≈2.0M ●

across 13 countries

#23 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
621 ●

40M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 69 ◐

Romania

Spellings & scripts●

StevenLatin · English●12M records
СтепанCyrillic · Russian●997K records
סטפןHebrew · Hebrew●13K records
ΣτεφανοςGreek · Greek●3.7K records
ᲡტეფანეGeorgian · Georgian●1.6K records
สตีเฟ่นThai · Thai●777 records
스티븐Hangul · Korean●13 records
স্টিভেনBengali · Bangla●2 records
ስቲቨንEthiopic · Amharic●0 records
ՍթիվենArmenian · Armenian●0 records

14 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Stefan in DE Germany, RO Romania, PL Poland and 5 more, Stephen in GB United Kingdom, AU Australia, PH Philippines and 3 more, Steven in US United States, CA Canada, IT Italy and Степан in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.

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 ‘wreath, crown’; plate shows labial fricative variation in the spelling. 16600 bearers.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Steffen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#62,606,8192.1M rec.—12Stephen334
DE Germany#41,638,2751.5M rec.—2Stefan334
AU Australia#51,317,224949K rec.—106Stephen326
UA Ukraine#68977,649996K rec.—listedСтепан75
US United States#8971,97028M rec.1 in 342972KSteven621
RU Russia#97971,485431K rec.—#47Степан163
CA Canada#6843,178764K rec.—25Steven274
RO Romania#10309,900△6.9K rec.1 in 69310KStefan111
FR France#4308,5402M rec.1 in 220309KStephane403
AT Austria#3205,32053K rec.—31KStefan201
PH Philippines#93169,639129K rec.——Stephen148
IT Italy#44150,967161K rec.—15Steven126

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

Languages●

  • German245K75%
  • Danish36K11%
  • Norwegian Bokmål14K4%
  • English13K4%
  • Norwegian3.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German244,63075%
Danish35,63911%
Norwegian Bokmål13,7304%
English12,6514%
Norwegian3,1231%

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●

Steffen 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 Danish, a male given name, variant of Stefan

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

  • In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Stephan; 14256 Träger. Die Karte zeigt a>e-Abschwächung in der Endsilbe (-an/-en) und Varianten mit -en/-ens.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In German, Patronym zu Stephan; zeigt f(f)-Schreibung gegenüber ph, mit eingedeutschteren Formen häufiger. Bearer count: 6938.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • In German, Vokalvarianz zwischen Stephan/Steffen; Karte 288 zeigt die Verteilung der e/i-Formen. 14256 Bearer.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In Swedish, Se Stefan.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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●

020406080196019802000202077 · 1991

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Steffen in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1948–2025
Yearrecords
19486
19519
195212
19536
19546
19556
195712
19587
19597
196012
19619
196213
196311
196412
196513
196611
196718
196812
196914
197012
197118
19728
197318
197412
197514
197615
197713
197815
19797
198018
198115
198220
198322
198431
198541
198653
198755
198857
198962
199054
199177
199243
199349
199454
199536
199649
199736
199826
199934
200022
200126
200220
200319
200413
200527
20069
200714
200815
200914
201017
201112
201212
201318
201412
201514
201612
20177
20185
201913
202016
202113
20235
20245
20255

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 74 years between 1948–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Steffen Zacharias, b. 1927Steffen Seibert, b. 1960Steffen Wink, b. 1967Steffen Freund, b. 1970Steffen Baumgart, b. 1972Steffen Groth, b. 1974Steffen Iversen, b. 1976Steffen Hofmann, b. 1980Steffen Hamann, b. 1981Steffen Weinhold, b. 1986

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 66 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Steffen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—14K#333
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201011K#3,144
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200011K#2,937
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202011K#3,154
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—6.6K#100
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—4K#2,671
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20253.8K—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243.7K#179
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.7K#8,558
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—1K#1,048
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—737#2,516
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—410#2,278

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 397 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Steffen?
We estimate roughly 2.0 million people bear Steffen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Steffen have the most bearers?
Steffen is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled stephen.
Where is Steffen most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Steffen is densest in Romania — about 1 in 69 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Steffen compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Steffen is the 6th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Steffen a male or female name?
Steffen is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Steffen mean?
Recorded meaning: From Greek Stephanos ‘wreath, crown’; plate shows labial fricative variation in the spelling.
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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, “Steffen” — the 6th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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