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41 famous people named Szczepan found on Wikipedia.
Used in: Polish
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.
Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
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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 |