Given name & surname
Stepan
“crown, wreath”
Stepan is a masculine given name from Russian, ultimately from Czech. It is used in English and Polish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Stepan is a romanization of Степан. Степан means “crown, wreath.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In Russian use, Stepan shares an earlier linguistic root with Stephen. An origin associated with Stephen is Greek.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Polish usage, Stepan as a surname developed from Štěpán.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Stepan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 261
- 261 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,536 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −62%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,536 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 2019. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,568 as a first name in 2020; 973 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.
Stepan’s family of names
Stepan has an affectionate form in Stenya. Stepan shares a linguistic root with Stephen. Stepan is a form of Stephan.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Stepan has relatives in 5 languages.
5 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 34
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Stevenequivalent
- Stephencognate · English
- Estebanequivalent
- Steveequivalent
- Stefanoequivalent
- Etienneequivalent
- Stivenequivalent
- Stefanosequivalent
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- Stevanequivalent
- Stefenequivalent
- Steffanequivalent
- Steffenequivalent
- Steeveequivalent
- Stephaneequivalent
- Stipeequivalent
- Estevoequivalent
- Étienneequivalent
- Staffanequivalent
- StéphaneFrench
- Štefanequivalent
- Tapaniequivalent
- Steponasequivalent
- Stefánequivalent
- Ștefanequivalent
- Сцяпанequivalent
- Istvánequivalent
- Стефанequivalent
- Stefequivalent
- Stephanusequivalent
- Szczepanequivalent
- Stjepanequivalent
- Estêvãoequivalent
- Štěpánroot · Czech
- Στέφανοςroot · Greek
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Stepan
- 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 Stepan: 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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