Steffan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Greek Stephanos, “crown”; linked to St Stephen, feast day 26 Dec
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 33 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Steffan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 32Kfew records
- FRFrance≈1 in 130K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Greek Stephanos, “crown”; linked to St Stephen, feast day 26 Dec.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Steffan is found
(measured from records)Steffan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 30K | listed | Steffan | 100 |
| US United States | — | 1,847 | 1 in 180K | 1.8K | Steffan | 258 |
| FR France | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 129K | 44 | — | 4 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 9 | Steffan | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 259K | 3 | Steffan | 156 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 175K | 1 | Steffan | 58 |
| ML Mali | #304 | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Steffan | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 118K | 7 | Steffan | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the dfa-band-1 register; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Steffan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, variante regional de Stefan
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In French, Variante de Stéphane.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Welsh form of STEPHEN .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Joseph Anton Steffanb. 1726CZCzech composer (1726–1797)
- Jakob Steffanb. 1888DEGerman politician (1888-1957)
- Benjamin Steffanb. 1996DEGerman figure skater
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)65 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 33 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Steffan mean, and where does it come from?
- From Greek Stephanos, “crown”; linked to St Stephen, feast day 26 Dec. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- What are other forms of the name Steffan?
- In the etymology graph, Esteve, Tapani and Fane are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Steffan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Steffan in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled steffan. After it come United States, France, Austria and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Steffan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,847 people named Steffan in 2010, about 1 in 180 thousand residents.
- How common is Steffan compared with other names?
- In Mali, Steffan is the 304th most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Steffan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/steffanThe 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, “Steffan” — the 304th most common surname in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.