Stig

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled สตึก in TH Thailand and Satik in 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●

Attested across 3 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◐

Stig is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian given name231 records spelled Stig12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, United States, Ukraine, Sweden

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Стиг, Stieg, Стіг, Stih

• Croatian given name108 records spelled Stig8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Croatia, United States, Sweden

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Стиг

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●

Stig 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 Norwegian Bokmål, imperative of stige

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

• In Swedish, Stig är ett nordiskt namn, motsvarande fornvästnordiskt Stígr, bildat till verbet stíga ’gå, vandra’. Namnet var ursprungligen ett danskt binamn, som senare utvecklades till förnamn. Kända namnbärare är formgivaren Stig Lindberg (1916–82) och författaren Stieg Larsson (1954–2004). I den rikssvenska almanackan 17 december och den finlandssvenska 5 juni.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In German, aus dem Dänischen entlehnter männl.

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Scandinavian: from the Old Norse personal name Stígr , a short form of Stígandr (see STIAN ).

  as a word

• In English, Someone from a poor background, with poor dress sense.

  as a word·kaikki.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●

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 69 years between 1945–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Stig Olinb. 1920SESwedish actor, director and musician (1920–2008)
• Stig Andersonb. 1931SESwedish lyricist, music publisher, composer, music executive, manager for ABBA, teacher (1931-1997)
• Stig Engströmb. 1934SESwedish man who appears in the investigation of the murder of Olof Palme (1934-2000)
• Stig Engströmb. 1942SESwedish actor
• Stig Blomqvistb. 1946SESwedish rally driver, winner of the 1984 World Rally Championship for Drivers
• Stig Henrik Hoffb. 1965NONorwegian actor
• Stig Inge Bjørnebyeb. 1969NONorwegian association football player and manager
• Stig Tøftingb. 1969DKDanish footballer
• Stig Rästab. 1980EEEstonian singer and songwriter (born 1980)
• Stig-André Bergeb. 1983NONorwegian wrestler

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 · 230 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Stig?

We estimate roughly 60 thousand people bear Stig (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Stig have the most bearers?

We estimate about 44 thousand people bear Stig in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled stig.

Where is Stig most common?

Stig is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 231 people carrying it.

How common is Stig compared with other names?

In Sweden, Stig is the 143rd most common given name of 36,824 given names recorded there.

Is Stig a male or female name?

Stig 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 Stig mean?

Recorded meaning: a path, a trail (in nature and narrow)