Name: Sten
Gender: Male
Usage: Sten is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Sten are in general originating from Denmark, Estonia, France, Norway, Sweden, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Sten is: Stone, A stone.
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Numerology of the first name Sten: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Sten is ranked on the 17,156th position of the most used names. It means that this name is rarely used.
We estimate that there are at least 12900 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Sten has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
We do not have enough data to display the number of people who were given the name Sten for each year.
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History and Origin
- For information about the submachine gun, see Sten.
Sten is a Scandinavian male given name. Literally meaning "rock" or "cliff", it derives from a literal translation of Peter into the North Germanic languages.
Notable individuals with the name include
- Sten Abel (1872 – 1942), Norwegian sailor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Sten Andersson (1923 – 2006), Swedish politician and cabinet minister
- Sten Forshufvud (1903 - 1985), Swedish expert on poisons who put forward the theory that Napoleon Bonaparte died of arsenic poisoning
- Sten Wahlund (1901 - 1976), Swedish geneticist
- Sten Heckscher, Swedish politician
- Sten Lindroth (1914 - 1980), Swedish historian
- Sten Pålsson, Swedish retired footballer
- Sten Stensen, Norwegian retired speed skater
- Sten Sture the Elder (1440 – 1503), Regent of Sweden
- Sten Sture the Younger (1493 – 1520), Regent of Sweden under the Kalmar Union
In fiction:
- Sten (Breath of Fire 2 character)
- Sten, a Qunari warrior in BioWare's 2009 RPG, Dragon Age: Origins.
Notable individuals with the family name Sten include
- Åge Sten Nilsen, member of Norwegian hard rock band Wig Wam
- Anna Sten, Russian film actress
- Helge Sten, Norwegian musician
Swedish: from an Old Norse personal name, originally a short form of the various compound names containing the element steinn stone (cf. e.g. Torsten). Numerous names of Old Norse origin containing this as a first element are still in limited used today, as, for example, Stenbjörn, Stenfinn, Stenkil, and Stenulf.
Cognates: Norwegian: Stein. Danish: Ste(e)n.
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