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Остап
“steadfast, stable”
Остап (Ostáp) is a masculine given name from Byzantine Greek, meaning “steadfast, stable.” It is used in Ukrainian.
Russian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Ostap.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Byzantine Greek εὐσταθής (“steadfast, stable”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Остап’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Остап has a transliteration in OSTAP. In Ukrainian usage, Остап has a conventional equivalent in the French form Eustache. In Ukrainian usage, Остап can be written in the Roman alphabet as Ostáp.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 31
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Eustacioequivalent
- Efstathiosequivalent
- Eustaquioequivalent
- Eustaceequivalent
- Євстахійequivalent
- Eustachijusequivalent
- Eustácequivalent
- Eustáquioequivalent
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- EustacheFrench
- Eustazyequivalent
- Eustachioequivalent
- Евстафийequivalent
- Eustaquiequivalent
- Eustazioequivalent
- Eustachyequivalent
- Eustachequivalent
- Eustácioequivalent
- Στάθηςequivalent
- Eustacchioequivalent
- Eustasioequivalent
- Eustathiusequivalent
- Ευστάθιοςequivalent
- Eustasiusequivalent
- Evstahijequivalent
- Евстатийequivalent
- Eustathiosequivalent
- Eustatheequivalent
- Stathisequivalent
- Eusztákequivalent
- Оста́пhas masculine form
- Russianequivalent
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Остап
- Ostap VyshniaUkrainian writer (1889–1956)
- Ostap DashkevychUkrainian Cossack leader1470–1536
- Ostap SlyvynskyUkrainian poet, essayist, translator, literary critic, and academicborn 1978
- Ostap VeresaiUkrainian kobzar and folk musician (1803–1890)
- Ostap Lutskyi1883–1941
- Ostap SemerakUkrainian politicianborn 1972
- Ostap NyzhankivskyUkrainian conductor, composer and politician (1863-1919)
- Ostap SteckiwAssociation football player (1924–2002)
- Ostap Terlet︠s︡kyi1850–1902
Characters named Остап: Ostap Bender (fictional conman from Ilf and Petrov's novels).
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