Stepan

Spellings & scripts●

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●

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

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

• English given name17K records spelled Stepan25 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Štěpán, Ştepan, Stépán, Štepán, Štĕpán

• Spanish given name4.8K records spelled Stepan4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Russia, United States, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Štěpán, Stĕpán

• French given name2.7K records spelled Stepan7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Russia

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Stépan, Štěpán, Stépán, Štĕpán, Stĕpán

• Finnish given name2.3K records spelled Stepan5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Russia, United States

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Štepan, Štěpán

• a separate given name1.1K records spelled Stepan9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, India

  Also written Štěpán, Stépán, Stĕpán, Stěpan, Stépan

• Norwegian Bokmål given name897 records spelled Stepan9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Russia, United States

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

  Also written Stĕpán, Štěpán

• Hungarian given name469 records spelled Stepan7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary, United States, Russia

  Also written Stépán, Štěpán, Stepán, Stépàn, Štĕpán

39 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●

Stepan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Italian, forma eslava de Stefan

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In English, A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian male given name Степа́н (Stepán).

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Serbo-Croatian, = Stjepan, gen. -ana m ... < lat. Stephânus < gr. Στέφανος »vijenac«

  as a word·Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

• The usual Russian form of STEPHAN .

  as a word

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 34 years between 1981–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Stenka Razinb. 1630RUnot in their usual nameCossack leader (c. 1630 - 1671)
• Stepan Krasheninnikovb. 1711RURussian scientist (1711-1755)
• Stepan Osipovich Makarovb. 1849UARussian admiral
• Stepa Stepanovićb. 1856RSnot in their usual nameSerbian field marshal (1856-1929)
• Stephen Timoshenkob. 1878USnot in their usual nameUkrainian & American engineer (1878–1972)
• Stepan Banderab. 1909UAUkrainian nationalist leader (1909–1959)
• Stepan Krylovb. 1910RUSoviet actor (1910-1998)
• Stepan Kubivb. 1962UAUkrainian central banker
• Stepan Atayanb. 1966UZfootballer
• Stepan Putilob. 1998BYBelarusian blogger

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 207 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Stepan?

We estimate roughly 2.0 million people bear Stepan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Stepan have the most bearers?

Stepan is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled stephen.

Where is Stepan most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stepan is densest in Romania — about 1 in 69 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.

How common is Stepan compared with other names?

In the United Kingdom, Stepan is the 6th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.

Is Stepan a male or female name?

Stepan 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 Stepan mean?

Recorded meaning: "king." Russianization of Stephen.