Stephane
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Stephane is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 6th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Du grec Stéphanos « couronne, couronné »; fêté le 26 décembre (saint Étienne/Stephanus).
- 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 ●
- #23 ●
- 10 ●
- Sources
- 621 ●
- 1 in 69 ◐
across 13 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
40M records
Official registry-verified
Romania
Spellings & scripts●
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●
Du grec Stéphanos « couronne, couronné »; fêté le 26 décembre (saint Étienne/Stephanus).
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 22 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | #6 | 2,606,819 | 2.1M rec. | — | 12 | Stephen | 334 |
| DE Germany | #4 | 1,638,275 | 1.5M rec. | — | 2 | Stefan | 334 |
| AU Australia | #5 | 1,317,224 | 949K rec. | — | 106 | Stephen | 326 |
| UA Ukraine | #68 | 977,649 | 996K rec. | — | listed | Степан | 75 |
| US United States | #8 | 971,970 | 28M rec. | 1 in 342 | 972K | Steven | 621 |
| RU Russia | #97 | 971,485 | 431K rec. | — | #47 | Степан | 163 |
| CA Canada | #6 | 843,178 | 764K rec. | — | 25 | Steven | 274 |
| RO Romania | #10 | 309,900△ | 6.9K rec. | 1 in 69 | 310K | Stefan | 111 |
| FR France | #4 | 308,540 | 2M rec. | 1 in 220 | 309K | Stephane | 403 |
| AT Austria | #3 | 205,320 | 53K rec. | — | 31K | Stefan | 201 |
| PH Philippines | #93 | 169,639 | 129K rec. | — | — | Stephen | 148 |
| IT Italy | #44 | 150,967 | 161K rec. | — | 15 | Steven | 126 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French1.5M90%
- Portuguese66K4%
- English48K3%
- Spanish7.1K1%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)6.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 1,502,092 | 90% |
| Portuguese | 66,068 | 4% |
| English | 48,096 | 3% |
| Spanish | 7,102 | 1% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 6,173 | 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●
Stephane is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Du grec ancien, signifie « couronné ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, An Ancient Greek headdress like a coronet.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative singular of Stephanus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1915 | 7 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1949 | 7 |
| 1950 | 6 |
| 1951 | 10 |
| 1952 | 6 |
| 1954 | 8 |
| 1955 | 7 |
| 1956 | 12 |
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1959 | 13 |
| 1960 | 13 |
| 1961 | 10 |
| 1962 | 13 |
| 1963 | 15 |
| 1964 | 12 |
| 1965 | 11 |
| 1966 | 14 |
| 1967 | 28 |
| 1968 | 24 |
| 1969 | 16 |
| 1970 | 28 |
| 1971 | 19 |
| 1972 | 21 |
| 1973 | 27 |
| 1974 | 24 |
| 1975 | 21 |
| 1976 | 27 |
| 1977 | 22 |
| 1978 | 26 |
| 1979 | 14 |
| 1980 | 22 |
| 1981 | 25 |
| 1982 | 32 |
| 1983 | 24 |
| 1984 | 25 |
| 1985 | 40 |
| 1986 | 32 |
| 1987 | 34 |
| 1988 | 32 |
| 1989 | 33 |
| 1990 | 38 |
| 1991 | 30 |
| 1992 | 30 |
| 1993 | 21 |
| 1994 | 26 |
| 1995 | 25 |
| 1996 | 17 |
| 1997 | 16 |
| 1998 | 11 |
| 1999 | 18 |
| 2000 | 20 |
| 2001 | 24 |
| 2002 | 15 |
| 2003 | 14 |
| 2004 | 14 |
| 2005 | 18 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 14 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2023 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 70 years between 1915–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Stéphane Mallarméb. 1842FRFrench Symbolist poet (1842–1898)
- Nicolas Sarkozyb. 1955FRnot in their usual name23rd president of the French Republic from 2007 to 2012
- Stéphane Dionb. 1955CACanadian politician
- Stéphane Le Follb. 1960FRFrench politician
- Stéphane Richardb. 1961FRFrench businessman
- Charbb. 1967FRnot in their usual nameFrench caricaturist and journalist (1967-2015)
- Stéphane Chapuisatb. 1969CHSwiss footballer
- Stéphane Guivarc'hb. 1970FRFrench footballer (born 1970)
- Stéphane Henchozb. 1974CHSwiss footballer and manager (born 1974)
- Stéphane Séjournéb. 1985FRFrench politician (born 1985)
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 59 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 4.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.8K | #2,785 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3.1K | #4,523 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.1K | #4,650 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #4,650 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 367 | #2,638 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 363 | #5,721 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2021 | 210 | #3,092 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 122 | #4,659 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 114 | #7,122 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 93 | #2,191 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 92 | #2,058 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 375 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Stephane?
- We estimate roughly 2.0 million people bear Stephane (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Stephane have the most bearers?
- Stephane is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled stephen.
- Where is Stephane most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stephane is densest in Romania — about 1 in 69 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Stephane compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Stephane is the 6th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
- Is Stephane a male or female name?
- Stephane 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 Stephane mean?
- Recorded meaning: Du grec Stéphanos « couronne, couronné »; fêté le 26 décembre (saint Étienne/Stephanus).
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Stephane” — the 6th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.