Stefaniia
The Ukrainian form of Stefania, from a Greek word for a crown or garland. Unheard of in Poland before this decade, it turns up now only in small numbers of newborn girls, a name most Poles have never met.
Stefaniia Pronunciation
Stefaniia is pronounced ste-FAHNY-yah (/stɛˈfaɲja/).
What Stefaniia means
Where Stefaniia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Stefaniia grows from the Greek stephanos, a crown or a garland, the wreath handed to a victor. The Ukrainian spelling, with its doubled i, marks it as a name carried in Kyiv and Lviv as readily as in Kraków, where it settles into Stefania. Its sense stays close to that first wreath: korona, wieniec.
Those who hold it often shorten it. Stefa answers at home, Stefka on the school register, and the fuller Stefania waits on the official form at the urząd. The masculine Stefan shares the same root and the same victor's crown.
One bearer was Stefania Turkewich, a Ukrainian composer often called the first woman to write symphonies and operas in her country's music. Her name still means the garland, the crown set on a winner's head.
How many people are named Stefaniia
1 in 21739 women in Poland is named Stefaniia. 1,037 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #944 among female names.
Stefaniia's popularity over time
12 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #662 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020.
Where Stefaniia is most popular
Stefaniia is most popular in Lower Silesian, 211% above the national average (7 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+116%) and Silesian (+114%).
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Lower Silesian7 girls born+211%
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Masovian11 girls born+116%
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Silesian7 girls born+114%
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Greater Poland4 girls born+30%
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Łódź2 girls born+10%
Stefaniia as a middle name
Stefaniia is a first name for 1,037 women in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2488th, between Sree (10) and Stephany (10).
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2486
10Sivan
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2487
10Sree
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248810Stefaniia
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2489
10Stephany
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2490
10Swapnil