Given name & surname
Étienne
“crowned with garland”
Étienne is a form of Stephen. One Greek interpretation is “crowned with garland.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Étienne is a form of Stephen. One Greek interpretation is “crowned with garland.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Étienne is a form of Stephen. An origin associated with Stephen is Greek.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In French use, Étienne is used as a form of Stephen.
Étienne’s family of names
In French usage, Étienne has a diminutive in Étiennette. Étienne shares a linguistic root with Stephen. In French usage, Étienne has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Esteban.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Étienne has relatives in 14 languages.
16 related names in 14 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 40
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Stevenequivalent
- Stephencognate · English
- EstebanSpanish
- StefanPolish, German
- Steveequivalent
- StephanGerman
- StefanoItalian
- Stivenequivalent
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- Stefanosequivalent
- Stevanequivalent
- Stefenequivalent
- Steffanequivalent
- Stepanequivalent
- Steffenequivalent
- Esteveequivalent
- Steeveequivalent
- Stephaneequivalent
- Staffanequivalent
- СтефанRussian
- СтепанRussian
- Στέφανοςroot · Greek, Ancient Greek
- Stienecognate · Walloon
- Estèvecognate · Occitan
- Stéphanedoublet · French
- ŠtefanCzech
- ŠtěpánCzech
- Stevoequivalent
- Tapaniequivalent
- Steponasequivalent
- Stefánequivalent
- Ștefanequivalent
- Istvánequivalent
- Stefequivalent
- Stéphanequivalent
- Szczepanequivalent
- Stjepanequivalent
- Estêvãoequivalent
- Estevoequivalent
- Stephanusolder form · Latin
- Estieneolder form · Old French
People named Étienne
- Étienne de La BoétieFrench judge, writer and philosopher (1530–1563)
- Gnassingbé EyadémaPresident of Togo from 1967 to 20051935–2005
- Étienne Bonnot de CondillacFrench academic1714–1780
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-HilaireFrench naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition" (1772-1844)
- Étienne-Louis MalusFrench officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (1775-1812)
- Étienne GilsonFrench historian and philosopher (1884-1978)
- Étienne MacdonaldMarshal of France (1765-1840)
- Étienne LenoirBelgian engineer (1822-1900)
- Étienne CabetFrench philosopher (1788–1856)
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