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Czech surnames

Štěpán: what the name means

Štěpán: from the first name Štěpán (Stephen).

In January 2017, 6,925 people in Czechia were named Štěpán or Štěpánová (the women’s form).

Where the name was most common in 2017

Areas are the Interior Ministry’s; numbers under 5 are not shown.

In America the name was often written without the Czech accents, so family papers may say Stepan.

To find the family in the old parish books, you need the village they came from.

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Questions

What does the surname Štěpán mean?

Štěpán: from the first name Štěpán (Stephen).

How many people are called Štěpán in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 6,925 people in Czechia were named Štěpán or Štěpánová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Štěpán most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (736), Dobruška (176), Brno (163).

Sources

  1. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)