Stefan

From Ancient Greek στεφανίζω (stephanízō, “to crown”) & Ancient Greek στέφανος (stéphanos, “that which surrounds, crown, wreath”).

Stefan

1. A male given name.
   • 2008, Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo, Pete Sampras: A Champion's Mind, published 2010, unnumbered page:

     In the 1991 Wimbledon semifinal between Michael Stich and Stefan Edberg, there was just one service break in the entire match, and the guy whose serve was broken, Stich, ended up winning the match!

2. A surname of German or Austrian origin, derived from the given name Stefan.
3. A crater on the far side of the moon.

• Stefan (crater) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• fasten, nefast

• Stephan

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Stefan

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Stephen

• (male given names) Steffen, Steven, Staffen
• (biblical) Stefanus
• (female names) Stephanie

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Stefan ?

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Stephen

• Stefanus, Stefaan, Steven
• feminine: Stefanie

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Stefan m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Stephen

Patronymics

• son of Stefan: Stefansson
• daughter of Stefan: Stefansdóttir

• Stephan

From Latin Stephanus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃtɛfan]

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• Hyphenation: Ste‧fan

Stefan

1. a male given name, feminine equivalent Stefanie or Stephanie, equivalent to English Stephen; variant form Steffen

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Stefan

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Stephen

• Stefanus
• Steffen

Learned borrowing from Latin Stephanus. Doublet of Szczepan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛ.fan/

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• Rhymes: -ɛfan
• Syllabification: Ste‧fan

Stefan m pers (female equivalent Stefania, diminutive Stefek)

1. a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Stephen
2. a male surname

Stefan f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

• Stefan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “Stefan”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

• IPA^(key): /stefan/

Stefan m anim (Cyrillic spelling Стефан)

1. a male given name

• “Stefan”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

From Vulgate Latin Stephanus, which was first recorded as a Swedish given name in the 12th century. Ultimately of Ancient Greek origin.

Stefan c (genitive Stefans)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Stephen

• Staffan
• Stefansson

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 71 999 males with the given name tefan living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

• fanets, fatens