Given name & surname
Štefan
“crown”
Štefan is a masculine given name. It is used in Czech and Slovak.
Original LatinStephanus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Štefan goes back to Latin Stephanus, meaning “crown.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Štefan 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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Štefan’s family of names
In Czech usage, Štefan has a diminutive in Štefanek. In Czech usage, Štefan has a conventional equivalent in the English form Steven. In Slovak usage, Štefan has a conventional equivalent in the English form Stephen.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Štefan has relatives in 15 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Štefan comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 36
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- StephanusLatin
- StevenEnglish
- StephenEnglish
- EstebanSpanish
- StefanPolish, German
- Steveequivalent
- StephanGerman
- StefanoItalian
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- Etienneequivalent
- Stivenequivalent
- Stefanosequivalent
- Stevanequivalent
- Steffanequivalent
- Stefenequivalent
- Stepanequivalent
- Steffenequivalent
- Esteveequivalent
- Steeveequivalent
- Stephaneequivalent
- Štefkoequivalent
- Steponasequivalent
- Tapaniequivalent
- Stefequivalent
- Stjepanequivalent
- Estevoequivalent
- Staffanequivalent
- СтефанRussian
- StéphaneFrench
- Štěpánalso known as · Czech
- Stevoequivalent
- ΣτέφανοςAncient Greek, Greek
- СтепанRussian
- EstêvãoPortuguese
- SzczepanPolish
- IstvánHungarian
- ÉtienneFrench
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Štefan
- Štefan FüleCzech diplomatborn 1962
- Štefan ČambalSlovak footballer (1908-1990)
- Štefan BaničSlovak inventor (1870-1941)
- Štefan UherCzechoslovak director (1930–1993)
- Štefan HadalinSlovene alpine skierborn 1995
- Štefan TisoSlovak minister of justice of the Slovakia, minister of foreign affairs of the Slovakia, prime minister of the Slovakia and lawyer (1897-1959)
- Štefan TarkovičSlovak association football player and managerborn 1973
- Štefan Luxjournalist, film director (1887-1936)1888–1936
- Štefan Marko DaxnerSlovak politician (1822-1892)
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