Stevan

Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen (Greek Στέφανος Stéphanos), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; he is widely regarded as the first martyr (or "protomartyr") of the Christian Church. The name "Stephen" (and its more common variant "Steven") is derived from Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos), a first name from the Greek word στέφανος (stéphanos), meaning "wreath, crown" and by extension "reward, honor", from the verb στέφειν (stéphein), "to encircle, to wreathe". In Ancient Greece, crowning wreaths (such as laurel wreaths) were given to the winners of contests. Originally, as the verb suggests, the noun had a more general meaning of any "circle"—including a circle of people, a circling wall around a city, and, in its earliest recorded use, the circle of a fight, which is found in the Iliad of Homer.
The name, in both the forms Stephen and Steven, is commonly shortened to Steve or Stevie. In English, the female version of the name is "Stephanie". Many surnames are derived from the first name, including Stephens, Stevens, Stephenson, and Stevenson, all of which mean "Stephen's (son)". In modern times especially the name has sometimes been given with intentionally nonstandard spelling, such as "Stevan" or "Stevon". A common variant of the name used in English is Stephan ; related names that have found some currency or significance in English include Stefan (pronounced or in English), Esteban and the Shakespearean Stephano . Like all biblical names, Stephen has forms in all major world languages. Some of these include: Esteban (Spanish; Spanish pronunciation: [esˈteβan]); Estêvão (Portuguese); Esteve (Catalan); Estève (Occitan); Étienne (French); Istifanus (Arabic); István (Hungarian); Setefane (Sotho); Shtjefni (Albanian); Sītífán (Mandarin Chinese); Stefan (German, Russian, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Serbian; German pronunciation: [ˈʃteːfan]); Stefán (Icelandic); Ștefan (Romanian); Štefan (Slovak and Slovenian); Stefana (Malagasy); Stefano (Italian and Swahili); Stefanos (modern Greek, modern Hebrew, and Estonian); Stefans (Latvian); Stefanus (Afrikaans); Steffan (Welsh); Stepan (Armenian); Štěpán (Czech); Stepane (Georgian); Steponas (Lithuanian); Stiofán (Irish); Sutepano (Japanese); Szczepan (Polish); and Tapani (Finnish).
In the United Kingdom, it peaked during the 1950s and 1960s as one of the top ten male first names (ranking third in 1954) but had fallen to twentieth by 1984 and had fallen out of the top one hundred by 2002. The name was ranked 201 in the United States in 2009, according to the Social Security Administration. The name reached its peak popularity in 1951 but remained very common through the mid-1990s, when popularity started to decrease in the United States.

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Form of stephen: a crown, a garland.

Stephen, Stevena

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Stevan Jovetić	1989	Montenegrin footballer
2	Stevan Ridley	1989	American football player
3	Stevan Markovic	1937	Serbian murder victim
4	Stevan Harnad	1945	Cognitive scientist and open access advocate
5	Stevan Stojanović	1964	Serbian footballer
6	Stevan Sinđelić	1770	Serbian rebel military leader
7	Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac	1856	Serbian composer
8	Stevan Riley		British film director
9	Stevan Jelovac	1989	Serbian basketball player
10	Stevan Javellana	1918	Filipino writer
11	Stevan Sremac	1855	Serbian writer
12	Stevan Dohanos	1907	American artist and illustrator
13	Stevan Račić	1984	Footballer
14	Stevan Faddy	1986	Montenegrin singer
15	Stevan Hristić	1885	Serbian composer
16	Stevan K. Pavlowitch	1933	Historian
17	Stevan Pletikosić	1972	Sport shooter
18	Stevan Mojsilović	1966	Retired footballer
19	Stevan Nađfeji	1979	Professional basketball player
20	Robyn Stevan		Canadian actress
21	Stevan Moljević	1888	Yugoslav politician
22	Stevan Šupljikac	1786	Duke of Serbia, born 1786
23	Stevan Koprivica
24	Stevan Mirković	1927
25	Stevan Bates	1981	Serbian professional footballer
26	Stevan Dedijer	1911	Yugoslav academic
27	Stevan Paul	1969	German journalist, author and cook
28	Stevan Knićanin	1807	Serbian revolutionary
29	Stevan Ostojić	1941	Serbian footballer
30	Stevan Vujović	1990	Montenegrin handball player
31	Stevan Karadžić	1960	Montenegrin basketball player and coach
32	Stevan Milošević	1985
33	Stevan Vilotić	1925	Yugoslav football manager and player
34	Stevan Kovačević	1988	Serbian footballer
35	Stevan Reljić	1986	Footballer
36	Stevan Eldred-Grigg	1952	New Zealand writer
37	Stevan Lieberman	1965	American lawyer
38	Stevan Luković	1992	Serbian footballer
39	Stevan Aleksić	1876	Painter
40	Stevan deFreest Larner	1930	American cinematographer
41	Stevan Naumov	1920	Yugoslav partisan
42	Stevan Bena	1935	Footballer
43	Stevan Horvat	1932	Olympic wrestler
44	Stevan Jackson	1970	Australian rules footballer
45	Stevan Milovac	1962	Serbian footballer
46	Stevan Stojkov	1989	Italian basketball player
47	Stevan Stošić	1984	Serbian footballer
48	Stevan Clark	1959	Player of American football
49	Stevan Knežević	1940	Serbian artist
50	Stevan Ognenovski	1948	Macedonian musician
51	Stefan Nedić	1875	Macedonian Serb Chetnik
52	Stevan Zorić	1971	Olympic athlete
53	Stevan Sekereš	1937	Serbian footballer
54	Stevan Živković	1989	Serbian footballer
55	Stevan Kragujević	1922	Serbian photographer
56	Stevan Dimitrijević	1866	Serbian theologian
57	Stevan Filipović	1981	Serbian film director and editor
58	Stevan Borota
59	Stevan Simić	1882
60	Stevan Stefanović	1984	Footballer
61	Stevan Walton	1985	English sport shooter
62	Roi Stevan	1701
63	Stevan Damjanović	1911
64	Stevan Nađ	1903	Wrestler
65	Tiziano Stevan	1946	Italian association football player
66	Stevan Davies	1948
67	Stevan Petrović
68	Stevan Pavlović	1926	Olympic athlete
69	Stevan Švabić	1865
70	Stevan Marković	1804	Serbian politician
71	Stevan Tontic	1946	Writer
72	Stevan Tickmayer	1961
73	Stevan Ljubibratić
74	Stevan Šalajić	1929	Serbian actor
75	Stevan Pešić	1939
76	Stevan Doronjski	1919
77	Stevan Kaćanski	1828	Serbian poet (1828-1890)
78	Stevan Lukačević	1860	Montenegrin politician
79	Stevan Bojović	1995
80	Stevan M. Luković
81	Stevan Majiedt
82	Steva Todorović	1832
83	Stevan Karamata	1926	Serbian geologist (1926-2015)
84	Gioacchino Stevan	1921
85	Stevan Gardinovački	1936	Serbian actor (1936-2011)
86	Stevan D. Popović	1844	Serbian educationist (1844-1902)
87	Stevan Minja	1926	Serbian actor (1926-1999)
88	Stefan Jakovljević	1890
89	Stevan Josifović	1906
90	Stevan Gaber	1919	Yugoslav philosopher of law
91	Stevan Bodnarov	1905	Serbian sculptor, painter and political commissar (1905-1993)
92	Stevan Luketić	1925
93	Michele Stevan	1993	Italian ice hockey player
94	Stevan Raičković	1928	Serbian poet (1928-2007)
95	Stevan Pilipović	1950	Serbian mathematician
96	Stevan Magazinović	1804
97	Stevan Dukić	1920
98	Stevan Branovački	1804	Serbian politician
99	Stevan Le Beller		French kayaker
100	Stevan Pilipovic		Serbian mathematician
101	Stevan Tommei	1912	Italian association football player
102	Stevan Crnogorac	1990
103	Stevan Todorović
104	Stevan Lekitsch
105	Stevan Jakoba	1971
106	Stevan Adamović	1870	Yugoslavian politician
107	Stevan Gromilović
108	Stevan S. Živanović	1900
109	István Radics	1863
110	Stevan Bikić	1918
111	Stevan Pozder
112	Stevan Galogaza	1893	Serbian writer (1893-1944)
113	Stevan Žutić	1919
114	Stevan Mačković
115	Stevan Čičovački	1954
116	Stevan Bobalj
117	Stevan Stantić
118	Stevan Radošević