Szczepan


Gender:
Origin: Greek
41 famous people named Szczepan found on Wikipedia.
Used in: Polish

Meanings

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.


Polish form of Stephen: crown, crowned.

Famous People: 41 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Szczepan Twardoch 1979 Polish author
2 Szczepan Baczyński 1901 Polish actor
3 Szczepan Baum 1931 Polish architect
4 Szczepan Jeleński 1881
5 Szczepan Koruba 1915
6 Szczepan Sadurski 1965 Cartoonist
7 Szczepan Siekierka Polish writer
8 Szczepan Kończal 1985 Polish musician
9 Szczepan Bradło
10 Szczepan Biliński 1949
11 Szczepan Jankowski 1900
12 Szczepan Humbert 1756 Polish architect
13 Szczepan Grzeszczyk 1901 Polish sportsperson
14 Szczepan Szczeniowski 1898 Polish physicist
15 Szczepan Skomra 1949 Polish politician
16 Szczepan Lewna Polish activist
17 Szczepan Ścibior 1903 Pilot
18 Szczepan Pilecki
19 Szczepan Szydelski 1872
20 Szczepan Kozak 1970 Polish historian
21 Szczepan Łazarkiewicz 1893
22 Szczepan Witkowski 1898 Polish ski mountaineer
23 Szczepan Pieszczoch 1921
24 Szczepan Skorupka 1903
25 Szczepan Bukowski 1948 Polish sportsperson and athletics competitor
26 Szczepan Kowalczyk 1895
27 Józef Szczepan 1885
28 Szczepan Dobrowolski 1914
29 Szczepan Szczykno 1960
30 Szczepan Grajczyk 1931 Polish rower
31 Szczepan Wesoły 1926 Polish priest
32 Szczepan Rybacki 1887
33 Szczepan Hołowczyc 1741 Polish priest
34 Szczepan Borkowski 1929
35 Szczepan Przybylski 1899
36 Szczepan Soszyński 1918
37 Szczepan Zambrzycki
38 Szczepan Chrzanowski 1945
39 Szczepan Kupczak 1992 Polish Nordic combined skier
40 Szczepan Włodarski 1918
41 Szczepan Kurzeja