Stepan - a male Russian personal name of Greek origin; dates back to ancient Greek Στέφανος (Stefanos) - “a wreath, crown, crown, diadem”. In ancient Greek mythology, a crown or diadem is a traditional attribute of the goddess Hera (more rarely, other goddesses) [2] [3] .
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Origin | greek |
Rod | male |
Etymological meaning | "Crown", "crown" |
middle name |
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Female name pair | Stepanida , Stephanie |
Other forms | Stephen |
Prod. forms | Stepanka; Stepan; Stepaha; Stepasha; Stepan; Stepunya; Stepura; Stepuha; Stepush; Stesha; Stenia; Stenyusha [1] |
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Church Slavonic form adopted in Orthodoxy - Stefan . The short form of the name is Step ; colloquial form - Stenka ; diminutive and pet forms - Stepasha, Stepashka, Stepich, Stepushka, Stepanchik, Stesha , and others [1] [2] .
Analogs named Stepan were widely distributed in many European languages in the forms of Stephen , Stefan , Etienne , Esteban , Istvan , Stephen and others.
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Origin of Name
In the Christian name, the name Stephen corresponds with many saints , but above all - with St. Stephen the First Martyr , an apostle of the seventy , who is honored as the first Christian who was martyred for the open confession of faith in Christ (information about him is contained in the Acts of the Holy Apostles ). In addition to him, among the early Christian saints, Pope Stephen I ( III century ), a martyr who suffered during the reign of Emperor Valerian , is revered; other. The name was widespread in Byzantium and neighboring countries (for example, in Serbia ) in the early Middle Ages , as evidenced by a large number of canonized saints named Stephen of this period [4] [5] [6] .
Name Frequency
The name Stepan , in spite of foreign origin, is usually referred to as traditional, "primordial" Russian names . The reason for this lies in the fact that it has long been firmly established in the fabric of the Russian language . The early ancient Russian sources of the XII - XIV centuries already fix the name, borrowed from the Greek, in its Russified form ( Stephen → Stepan ); The presence of a large number of saints with this name in the calendar (and, accordingly, many days on which to baptize with this name) contributed to its widespread distribution. A feature of the functioning of the name was his common people: he was not too "favored" in the ruling classes of medieval Russia , and later in a historical perspective the social niche of the name as a whole did not change [7] .
Numerous Russian surnames , formed from various forms of the name: Stepanov , Stepantsov , Stepashin (← Stepasha ), Steshin (← Stesha ) and others testify to the great demand for a name in the past; and the surname Stepanov is one of the most common Russian surnames (40th place).
L. M. Schetinin, tracing the frequency of 7 most popular male names (from among the traditional ones) for several centuries ( XVII - XX ), noted that in the XVII - XIX centuries, the name Stepan had consistently high rates of frequency (in the XVII century - 28 , in the XVIII - 34 ‰, in the XIX - 33 ‰). But at the beginning of the 20th century, a significant decline in popularity began (8 ‰ for the period before 1917 ), which continued throughout the whole century ( 1920s - 4 4, 1960s - 2) [8] .
In the first post-revolutionary years (until the mid -1930s ), on the wave of popular enthusiasm for all the new ones, the rejection of previous names in favor of new ones (one of the slogans of the time - “New names for a new life”) was practiced. Some traditionally popular, “popular” Russian names in the mass consciousness were in a certain sense compromised: they were associated with the old, pre-revolutionary order, perceived as “petty-bourgeois”, “vulgar”, “inert”. Among the most frequent names of “refusers” was recorded the name Stepan , along with the masculine Ivan , Kuzma , Nikita , Afanasy and the female Matryona , Thekla , Evdokia , Akulin . The men who changed their name most often chose for themselves the “new” names of Vladimir , Nikolai , Alexander , Anatoly , Leonid , at that time either being at the peak of popularity ( Nikolai, Vladimir, Alexander ), or just gaining it. A mass abandonment on behalf of the adult population was followed by a further decrease in its frequency among newborns [9] .
According to data collected by V. A. Nikonov in a number of regions of central Russia, in 1961 there were only a few instances of the naming of the name Stepan . The statistics collected by A. V. Superanskaya and A. V. Suslova over several decades in Leningrad also show that the name had a predominantly fading dynamics in the 20th century . If the Leningraders born in the 1930s had a frequency of 4 ‰, while those born in the 1950s had 2 ‰, then among the newborns of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, the name was never met. Nevertheless, at the end of the 1980s, the use of the name was restored, and the frequency was 3; a return to it showed that positive changes in the perception of the name were noted in society. Superanskaya and Suslova attributed the name Stepan to the category of names with limited distribution [7] [9] .
In 2009, in the Khabarovsk Territory, the name appeared on the 21st place in the list of popular names among newborns; its frequency was 16 ‰ [10] .
Name Day
Orthodox name days ( dates are according to the Gregorian calendar ) [6] :
- January 9, January 17, January 24, January 27
- February 7, February 12, February 21, February 26
- March 7, March 12
- April 5, April 6, April 8, April 10
- May 9, May 10, May 20, May 30
- June 6, June 20, June 25
- July 13, July 18, July 23, July 26, July 27, July 31
- August 1, August 13, August 15, August 25, August 29
- September 2, September 9, September 10, September 12, September 15, September 17, September 20, September 26, September 28
- October 7, October 15, October 17, October 22, October 23
- November 10, November 12, November 13, November 17, November 24, November 25
- December 11, December 15, December 22, December 23, December 28, December 30
See also
- Stepan (values)
- Stepanov
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Petrovsky N.A. Stepan . Dictionary of Russian personal names . Lettering.ru (2002). The date of circulation is December 16, 2015. Archived on February 4, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 Superanskaya A.V. Dictionary of Russian Personal Names. - M .: Eksmo, 2006. - (Library of dictionaries). - ISBN 5-699-10971-4 .
- ↑ Superanskaya, A.V. Name - through the centuries and countries. - 3rd. - Moscow : ComBook, 2010. - ISBN 978-5-484-01128-5 .
- ↑ First Martyr Stephen . Orthodox calendar . Orthodoxy.ru The appeal date is June 9, 2011. Archived August 26, 2011.
- ↑ Holy Martyr Stephen, Pope of Rome . Orthodox calendar . Orthodoxy.ru The appeal date is June 9, 2011. Archived August 26, 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Saints named Stephen . Orthodox calendar . Orthodoxy.ru The appeal date is June 9, 2011. Archived August 24, 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Superanskaya, A. V., Suslova, A. V. About Russian names. - 5th, pererab. - SPb. : Avalon, 2008. - ISBN 978-5-903-605-04-0 .
- ↑ Schetinin, L. M. Russian names. - Rostov-on-Don: University of Rstov, 1975.
- ↑ 1 2 Nikonov, V. А. Personal names of Russians today // Name and society. - M .: Science, 1974.
- ↑ Popular names of newborns in 2009 (inaccessible link) . Office of the registry office of the Government of the Khabarovsk Territory (03/17/2010). The appeal date is September 21, 2011. Archived August 23, 2011.