köken: Inherited from Old French Estiene, from earlier Estiefne, from Latin Stephanus, from Ancient Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos). Doublet of Stéphane, a borrowing from Latin.
a male given name · a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
çekim: çoğul tapanit · tamlayan tapanin
köken: A vernacular form (particularly in western and northern Finland) of the Vulgate Latin Stephanus, from Ancient Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos, literally “crown, wreath”), brought to Finland as a Catholic saint's name. Equivalent to English Stephen. The surname usually derives via farm names named after an owner. This form may have been based on Old Swedish Staffan.
a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Stephen
köken: Ultimately from Ancient Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos). Greek names usually reached the Hungarian language via Latin (see Latin Stephanus) or Slavic (see e.g. Štefan). But the German Stephan also influenced the formation of the old Hungarian name Estefán ~ Istefán, from which today's István was created. There are written occurrences of the names Stephanus, Stefanus, Stepanus from the first years of…