Stec
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈstɛt͡s/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Stec is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the given name Stefan.
- PLPoland1 in 3.7K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 15K
- NONorway1 in 54K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
10,374 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Štec in SK Slovakia.
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)- LatinStephanus(inferred from the name graph)via Stefan
- Ancient GreekΣτέφανοςStéphanos(inferred from the name graph)via Stefan
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From the given name Stefan.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Stec 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #324 | 10,374 | 1 in 3.7K | 5.2K | Stec | 102 |
| US United States | — | 2,215 | 1 in 150K | 2.2K | Stec | 89 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 352 | 1 in 15K | 352 | Štec | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 228K | 82 | Stec | 40 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | Stec | 13 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 160 | 1 in 67K | 160 | Stec | 17 |
| NO Norway | — | 102 | 1 in 54K | 102 | — | 5 |
10,374 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Stefan Stecb. 1889PLPolish flying ace (1889-1921)
- Stanisław Stecb. 1941PLPolish politician
- Krzysztof Stecb. 1948PLcyclist (1948-2019)
- Stefan Stecb. 1964PLUnited Nations peacekeeper (1964-2005)
- Katarzyna Mizia-Stecb. 1967PLPolish cardiologist, researcher
- Dan Stecb. 1970USAmerican politician
- Rafał Stecb. 1976PLPolish journalist
- Marcin Stecb. 1980PLPolish actor
- David Stecb. 1994ATAustrian footballer
- Katya Stecb. 1994USAmerican producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5.2K | #372 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5.1K | #369 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,670 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,911 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,756 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 102 | #14,959 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 82 | #37,515 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 63 | #9,552 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 62 | #24,766 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Stec mean, and where does it come from?
- From the given name Stefan. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Stec?
- In Polish /ˈstɛt͡s/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Stec have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Stec, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stec.
- Where is Stec most common?
- Stec is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Stec?
- In Poland, the national register counted 10,374 people named Stec in 2026, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Stec compared with other names?
- In Poland, Stec is the 324th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Stec?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stecThe 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, “Stec” — the 324th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.