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Stephania

Stephania reached its high-water mark in 1916 at number 732, and has been recorded 3,328 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 7,491st. About 2,200 Stephanias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Stephania

By the numbers

Total US births
3,328
Estimated living today
2,200
Median age today
32
Peak year
1916
Best rank
732nd
Rank in 2025
7,491st
First recorded
1898

How old the living Stephanias are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,328 babies given the name since 1898, about 2,200 are alive — 67 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Latin

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Stephanias

People named Stephania with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Stephania is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Stephania is most concentrated in New York (3.5×), Pennsylvania (2.7×), Florida (2.7×), California (2.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1916

The most popular girls’ names the year Stephania peaked:

All the names of 1916

Stephania elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Stephania +1 spelling 735 310th
England and Wales girls Stephania 26 4,763rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Stephania among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Stephania 5

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Stephania lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 372 women called Stephania were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Araba/Álava Stephania 8 0.046 1,405
Lleida Stephania 8 0.036 1,531
Lugo Stephania 5 0.030 1,435
Navarra Stephania 10 0.029 1,844
Balears, Illes Stephania 17 0.027 1,987
Palmas, Las Stephania 16 0.027 2,679

Listed in 20 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 32 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Stephania against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.