Stań
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular imperative of stać
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
/staɲ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stań is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 22K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 495as Sten
- DKDenmark1 in 3.3Kas Sten
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Stań itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
20,630 named Sten
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Stan in US United States, NL Netherlands and Sten in SE Sweden.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)second-person singular imperative of stać
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Stań counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 20,630as Sten | 1 in 495 | 21K | Sten | 5 |
| US United States | 15,386 | 1 in 22K | 15K | Stan | 67 |
| DK Denmark | 1,799as Sten | 1 in 3.3K | 1.8K | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 1,703as Sten | 1 in 10K | 9.3K | Stan | 10 |
| NO Norway | 1,457as Sten | 1 in 3.8K | 3.5K | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 550as Sten | 1 in 10K | 1.5K | — | 1 |
20,630 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Stań mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular imperative of stać Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Stań?
- A machine transcription gives /staɲ/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Stań have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Sten, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Stań most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stań is densest in the United States — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Stań?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,386 people named Stań in 2020, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Stań?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sta%C5%84The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Stań”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.