Stephan

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of Stephanus

Related Names

See Stephanus

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Stephansen

Female

Stephansdatter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Stephan
Genitive:	Stephans

- Finnish
Nominative:	Stephan
Genitive:	Stephanin
Partitive:	Stephania

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Stephan
Genitive:	Stephans

- Swedish
Nominative:	Stephan
Genitive:	Stephans

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: appears in the baptism registers of Skast herred (Næsbjerg, Øse, Fåborg, Grimstrup, Årre) in the period 1706-1710
• Iceland: Officially rejected as a given name on 4 November 2003

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1960-1979
• Denmark: 1970-1990
• Norway: 1985-1990

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		994	1618	0	4	994	1614
Denmark		905	n.a.	0	n.a.	905	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	446	0	0	n.a.	446
Iceland		11	13	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		497	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	497	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Stephan.