Given name & surname
Stellan
Stellan is a masculine given name. It is used in Swedish.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Stellan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,600
- 1,577 boys · 23 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 192 babies
- 2025
- 192
- #1,140 for boys · #14,719 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +53%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 186 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,140 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 48.0% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. It also appeared in 6 birth records for girls in 2025. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (30). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 836 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Stellan’s family of names
Stellan may belong to the same name family as STELLANN. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Stellan
- Stellan SkarsgårdSwedish actor (born 1951)
- Stellan NilssonSwedish footballer (1922-2003)
- Stellan RyeDanish film director (1880–1914)
- Stellan WesterdahlSwedish sailor (1935-2018)
- Stellan BrynellSwedish chess playerborn 1962
- Stellan OlssonSwedish film director1936–2022
- Stellan EngholmSwedish writer and Esperantist (1899–1960)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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