Stephania

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Stephania is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Romania it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Stephen, from Greek Stephanos, “crown”; linked to St Stephen, feast day 26 Dec.

rarermore common
  • RORomania1 in 170◐
  • USUnited States1 in 506
  • HRCroatia1 in 557

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

≈1.2M ●

across 17 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
223 ●

343K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 140 ◐

Lithuania

Spellings & scripts●

StefaniaLatin · English●287K records
СтефаніяCyrillic · Ukrainian●146K records
ΣτεφανίαGreek · Greek●74 records

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Stefania in US United States, RO Romania, PL Poland and 10 more, Стефания in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye, Стефанія in UA Ukraine and Štefanija in HR Croatia.

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●

Feminine form of Stephen, from Greek Stephanos, “crown”; linked to St Stephen, feast day 26 Dec.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Stephania is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—657,151△35K rec.1 in 506657KStefania223
FR France—238,690△3 rec.1 in 284239K—2
UA Ukraine#124196,794196K rec.—listedСтефанія30
RO Romania#14124,996△524 rec.1 in 170125KStefania51
PL Poland#16866,240△4.8K rec.1 in 57866KStefania88
RU Russia#48850,78024K rec.—#177Стефания130
BR Brazil—30,518△1.2K rec.1 in 6.9K38KStephania71
IT Italy#33423,70213K rec.—62Stefania119
LT Lithuania—19,542△4 rec.1 in 14020KStefania6
CO Colombia#5747,9441.5K rec.——Stephania77
HR Croatia#1237,58529K rec.1 in 5577.6KŠtefanija37
MX Mexico—7,4035K rec.—24Stephania115

Roughly 657K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 506). 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●

  • Spanish31K44%
  • English15K22%
  • Portuguese8K12%
  • French3.9K6%
  • 1.2K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish30,55344%
English15,30722%
Portuguese8,01812%
French3,9036%
1,1892%

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◐

Stephania is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name20K records spelled Stephania14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Brazil, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Stéphania, Štephâníâ, Stephanía, Stephânia, Stephanìa

  • Spanish given name4.5K records spelled Stephania122 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Spain, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English

    Also written Estefania, Estefanía, Estefânia, Estefanìa, Stéphania

  • a separate given name1.4K records spelled Stephania4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India

    Also written Stéphania, Stephanía, Stephânia

  • Italian given name156 records spelled Stephania3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Spain

    Also written Stephanía, Ştêphaniâ

  • Russian given name124 records spelled Stephania5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ukraine, Canada, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Stephânia, Stephanía

46 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●

Stephania 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 French, Forme féminine de Stéphane.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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●

025507510019001950200085 · 1916

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Stephania in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1898–2025
Yearrecords
18988
189910
19029
19037
19049
190510
190610
190715
190810
190911
191021
191117
191229
191333
191451
191565
191685
191769
191875
191969
192075
192151
192245
192336
192438
192517
192618
192722
192824
192914
19307
19318
19328
19335
19355
19416
19425
194810
194917
195017
19519
195210
195315
195413
19559
195611
195710
19589
195912
196013
196120
19628
196313
196414
196521
196628
196730
196833
196940
197052
197145
197259
197341
197441
197544
197627
197721
197832
197920
198026
198128
198233
198321
198429
198528
198637
198732
198846
198927
199030
199149
199256
199352
199426
199533
199665
199734
199844
199959
200046
200155
200242
200351
200446
200555
200641
200740
200831
200933
201038
201132
201242
201325
201427
201530
201625
201725
201828
201918
202017
202115
202223
202318
202415
202514

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 115 years between 1898–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

198019902000Stephania Louise Potalivo, b. 1986Claudia Wallin, b. 1987Stephania Vásquez Stegman, b. 1992Stephania Duque, b. 1993Stephania Haralabidis, b. 1995Stefania Chiziane, b. 1996

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 56 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Stephania
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.8K#5,945
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—514#1,974
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022503—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—498#13,311
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)1992495#1,886
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—372#5,620
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—361#9,333
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—341#18,221
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—243#3,525
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—174#5,901
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—134#1,816
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)201038—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 390 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Stephania?
We estimate roughly 1.2 million people bear Stephania (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.
In which country does Stephania have the most bearers?
We estimate about 657 thousand people bear Stephania in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled stefania.
Where is Stephania most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stephania is densest in Lithuania — about 1 in 140 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Stephania compared with other names?
In Romania, Stephania is the 14th most common given name of 29,954 given names recorded there.
Is Stephania a male or female name?
Stephania 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 Stephania mean?
Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Stephen, 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, “Stephania” — the 14th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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