When Glenn Herman Stephan was born on 12 February 1924, in Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Glenn Albert Stephan, was 31 and his mother, Martha Ellen Brown, was 32. He married Agnes L Vanicek on 5 July 1947, in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. He died on 11 October 1982, in Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 58.
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German, French, Dutch, and Arabic (Lebanon); Breton (also Stéphan): from the personal name Stephan, Stéphan, from Latin Stephanus (see Steven ). In France, this surname is most common in Brittany and in Alsace. Arabic bearers of this surname are Christians.
Americanized form of Slovenian, Croatian, and Slovak Štefan, Polish Stefan ‘Steven’.
In North America, this surname is also a shortened and altered form of various patronymics and other derivatives from the personal names Stefan and Štefan ‘Steven’ (see Stefan for some Slavic and Greek examples).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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