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Степан
“crown, wreath”
Степан (Stepán) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, meaning “crown, wreath.” It is used in Russian and Ukrainian.
Russian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Steven.
Meaning & origin
Степан’s family of names
In Russian usage, Степан has a diminutive in Степанка. In Russian usage, Степан has a conventional equivalent in the English form Steven. In Russian usage, Степан has a conventional equivalent in the English form Stephen.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Степан has relatives in 16 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Степан comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
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 41
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- StevenEnglish
- StephenEnglish
- EstebanSpanish
- StefanPolish, German
- Steveequivalent
- StephanGerman
- StefanoItalian
- Etienneequivalent
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- Stivenequivalent
- Stefanosequivalent
- Stevanequivalent
- Stefenequivalent
- Steffanequivalent
- SteffenGerman
- Steeveequivalent
- Stephaneequivalent
- EstavanSpanish
- Stipeequivalent
- Staffanequivalent
- 斯捷潘borrowing · Chinese
- Stepanaborrowing · izh
- Тяһпанborrowing · sia
- Στέφανοςsource · Greek, Ancient Greek
- SzczepanPolish
- StéphaneFrench
- ŠtefanCzech
- ŠtěpánCzech
- Tapaniequivalent
- Steponasequivalent
- Stefánequivalent
- Ștefanequivalent
- Сцяпанequivalent
- Stefequivalent
- Stjepanequivalent
- Estêvãoequivalent
- Estevoequivalent
- Степа́нhas masculine form
- ÉtienneFrench
- StephanusLatin
- ΣτεφανοςGreek
- IstvánHungarian
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Степан
- Stepan BanderaUkrainian nationalist leader (1909–1959)
- Stenka RazinCossack leader (c. 1630 - 1671)
- Stepan MakarovRussian admiral1849–1904
- Stepan ShaumianArmenian Bolshevik revolutionary (1878–1918)
- Stepan KrasheninnikovRussian scientist (1711-1755)
- Stepa StepanovićSerbian field marshal (1856-1929)
- Stepan ErzyaErzya Mordvin sculptor (1876-1959)
- Stephen TimoshenkoUkrainian & American engineer (1878–1972)
- Stepan RudnytskyUkrainian geographer & ethnographer (1877-1937)
Characters named Степан: Plyushkin (Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls), Uncle Styopa (fictional character created by Sergey Mikhalkov).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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