Stsiapan
A Slavic name meaning "crown" or "garland". Only about 370 men in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one, and these days newborns almost never get it.
Stsiapan Pronunciation
Stsiapan is pronounced STSHAH-pahn (/ˈstɕapan/).
What Stsiapan means
Where Stsiapan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Stsiapan is the Belarusian form of the name Poles know as Stefan. Written Сцяпан in Cyrillic, it reached Polish ears from the east, a Slavic shape for a name whose sense runs back to the Greek stephanos, a crown or a garland worn on the head.
A garland was no small thing. Winners at the old games wore one, and so did the honored guest. The crown here is the woven wreath rather than a king's metal circle, wieniec in Polish, laid on the brow of someone a crowd wanted to lift up.
On a Polish class register the name looks foreign, and a teacher may pause before reading it. Stsiapan carries no diminutive here, no Stefek to soften it. It stands as it is, wieniec and korona, crown and garland.
How many people are named Stsiapan
1 in 57075 men in Poland is named Stsiapan. 374 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1536 among male names.
Stsiapan's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.