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Stepan

#10,532 in 2025Boys' name

Stepan's, Stephen's, through Степа́н

Stepan has been given to 261 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #10,532 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Stepan, 2025

1 in 474,000

Stepan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stepan: meaning, origin, and history

Stepan's, Stephen's, through Степа́н

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Stepan means

Stepan belongs to the name family reached through Stepan → Степа́н. Its meaning is “Stepan's, Stephen's”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

(given name) From Russian Степа́н (Stepán, “Stephen”), from Greek Στέφανος (Stéfanos). Doublet of Stephen. :(surname) From Czech Štěpán.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Stepan (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Stepan is used in English.

Stepan comes through Russian Степа́н, Greek Στέφανος and Czech Štěpán.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stephen and Степа́н.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 261 boys were recorded with the name Stepan between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2019; its best national rank was #5,157 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,831 in 2020 to #10,532 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,639 in 2015 to #10,532 in 2025.

How common is Stepan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,532
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stepan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stepan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stepans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stepan was born before 2009 — so the typical Stepan is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
261
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Choose a decade

2010s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (100).

Is Stepan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,299
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,893
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.7%
Peak was 2019 (15)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,157
1988

Spellings of Stepan

Stepan is not the most common spelling — Steven is, with 47.7% against Stepan's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Stepan is used

Across 1910–2025, Stepan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 871,635 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Stepan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Stepan around the world

Where Stepan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    2006–2025
    #6,566
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Stepan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,532
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,299
Best rank ever
#5,157
1988
Peak year
2019
15 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
261
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Stepan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Stepan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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