Given name & surname
Etienne
“one who is crowned”
Etienne is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “one who is crowned.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “one who is crowned.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1902. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Etienne through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,711
- 1,620 boys · 91 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 47 babies
- 2025
- 27
- #3,977 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −7%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 27 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 3,977 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 6.9% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 43 in 2006. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (10). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,181 as a first name in 2020; 9,102 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Etienne’s family of names
Etienne has a feminine form in Étiennette. Etienne has a related form in Etta. Etienne has a related form in Ettie.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
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 35
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Stevenequivalent
- Stephenequivalent
- Estebanequivalent
- Stefanequivalent
- Steveequivalent
- Stephanequivalent
- Stefanoequivalent
- Stivenequivalent
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- Stefanosequivalent
- Stevanequivalent
- Stefenequivalent
- Steffanequivalent
- Stepanequivalent
- Steffenequivalent
- Esteveequivalent
- Steeveequivalent
- Stephaneequivalent
- Staffanequivalent
- Étiennettefeminine form
- Stevoequivalent
- Štefanequivalent
- Štěpánequivalent
- Tapaniequivalent
- Steponasequivalent
- Stefánequivalent
- Ștefanequivalent
- Istvánequivalent
- Stéphaneequivalent
- Stefequivalent
- Stephanusequivalent
- Szczepanequivalent
- Stjepanequivalent
- Estêvãoequivalent
- Estevoequivalent
- Степанequivalent
People named Etienne
- Etienne StottEnglish slalom canoeistborn 1979
- Etienne GreenEnglish footballer (born 2000)
- Etienne VermeerschBelgian debater, philosopher and skeptic (1934–2019)
- Etienne SchneiderLuxembourgish economistborn 1971
- Etienne CamaraGuinean-French footballerborn 2003
- Henri de BornierFrench poet and dramatist (1825–1901)
- Etienne BarbaraMaltese footballerborn 1982
- Etienne GirardotBritish actor (1856–1939)
- Etienne VaessenSurinamese footballerborn 1995
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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