Given name & surname
Štěpán
“crown”
Štěpán is a masculine given name. It is used in Czech.
Original LatinStephanus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Štěpán goes back to Latin Stephanus, meaning “crown.”
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Where it comes from
Štěpán comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
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How it developed
From Latin Stephanus, from Ancient Greek Στέφανος.
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Štěpán’s family of names
In Czech usage, Štěpán has a diminutive in Štěpánek. In Czech usage, Štěpán has a later derivative in Stepan. In Czech usage, Štěpán has a conventional equivalent in the English form Steven.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Štěpán has relatives in 33 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Štěpán comes from · 1 name
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.
- StephanusLatin
- StevenDutch, English
- StephenEnglish
- EstebanSpanish
- StefanGerman, Swedish
- Steveequivalent
- StephanGerman
- StefanoItalian
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- Etienneequivalent
- Stivenequivalent
- Stefanosequivalent
- Stevanequivalent
- Stefenequivalent
- SteffanWelsh
- Stepanderivative · Polish, English
- Steffenequivalent
- Steeveequivalent
- Stephaneequivalent
- EsteveCatalan
- Stefánequivalent
- Stefequivalent
- Stjepanequivalent
- Staffanequivalent
- СтефанRussian, sr-Cyrl
- SzczepanPolish
- StéphaneFrench, Luxembourgish
- СтепанUkrainian, Russian
- ΣτέφανοςAncient Greek, Greek
- Štefanalso known as · Slovene, Slovak
- ȘtefanRomanian
- EstêvãoPortuguese
- StiefnuMaltese
- IstvánHungarian
- StefansLatvian
- SteponasLithuanian
- SteafánIrish
- EstevoGalician
- ÉtienneFrench
- TapaniFinnish
- ShtjefënAlbanian
See also 7
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Štěpán
- Štěpán ChaloupekCzech footballerborn 2003
- Štěpán TrochtaCzechoslovak cardinal (1905–1974)
- Štěpán VachoušekCzech soccer player and soccer representantborn 1979
- Štěpán KučeraCzech soccer playerborn 1984
- Štěpán RakCzech music educator, composer and guitaristborn 1945
- Štěpán ŽilkaCzech chess playerborn 1988
- Štěpán ZavřelCzech animator, graphic, illustrator, painter, engraver, writer and artist (1932-1999)
- Štěpán TesaříkCzech hurdlerborn 1978
- Štěpán HevákCzechoslovak cross-country skier1896–1944
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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