Stephanos

{{About|the given name|the Greek mathematician|Cyparissos Stephanos}}

Stephanos or Stefanos, in Greek {{lang|grc|Στέφανος}}, is a masculine given name derived from the Greek word {{lang|grc|στέφανος}} (stéphanos), meaning "wreath, crown" and by extension "reward, honor, renown, fame", from the verb {{lang|grc|στέφειν}} (stéphein), "to encircle, to wreathe".{{cite web|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Stephen&searchmode=none |title=Online Etymology Dictionary |publisher=Etymonline.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-01}}[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dste%2Ffanos στέφανος], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus In Ancient Greece, crowning wreaths (such as laurel wreaths) were given to the winners of contests. Originally, as the verb suggests, the noun had a more general meaning of any "circle"—including a circle of people, a circling wall around a city, and, in its earliest recorded use, the circle of a fight, which is found in the Iliad of Homer.[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?greek.display=UnicodeC&arabic.display=UnicodeC&language=original&navbar.display=show&doc=Hom.+Il.+13.736&fromdoc=null Homer, Iliad, 13.736], on Perseus The English equivalent is Stephen.

People or biblical figures with the given name include:

;Antiquity & Middle Ages (chronologically)

;Modern period (alphabetically)

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