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Stephan

As a boy's name, Stephan traces back to Greek, where it is understood to mean "Greek stephanos, crown". It has faded some since the 1950s without dropping off entirely. These days, it is neither rare nor overly common. Its single strongest year on record was 1989.

EtymologyVariant of Stephen
GreekGreek "stephanos" – "crown"
Births by decade
1900s
21
1910s
285
1920s
216
1930s
285
1940s
1,930
1950s
4,498
1960s
4,324
1970s
3,246
1980s
4,386
1990s
4,365
2000s
2,036
2010s
1,268
Peaked in the 1950s · 26,860 total U.S. births since 1900