Stephanie
About 747,786 American babies have been named Stephanie since 1891, most of them around 1990. In 2025 it ranked 557th. About 700,000 Stephanies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Stephanie boys named Stephanie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 747,786
- Estimated living today
- 700,000
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 7th
- Rank in 2025
- 557th
- First recorded
- 1891
- Girls / boys
- 745,148 / 2,638
How old the living Stephanies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 747,786 babies given the name since 1891, about 700,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 26,000 of them are children and 41,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 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 French
. The standard English feminine form of Stephen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Stephanies
- Stephanie L. Kwolek (1923–2014)American chemist, inventor of Kevlar
- Stephanie McMahon (born 1976)American professional wrestler and executive
- Princess Stéphanie of Monaco (born 1965)younger daughter of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and Grace Kelly; younger sister of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- Stéphanie Frappart (born 1983)French football referee
- Stephanie Rice (born 1988)Australian swimmer
- Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (1864–1945)Archduchess of Austria
- Stephanie Beatriz (born 1981)Argentine-American actress
- Stephanie Wilson (born 1966)American engineer and NASA astronaut
People named Stephanie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Stephanie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Stephanie is most concentrated in California (1.4×), Delaware (1.4×), Alaska (1.4×), Nevada (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular girls’ names the year Stephanie peaked:
Stephanie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Stéphanie +1 spelling | 238,930 | 1st |
| England and Wales girls | Stephanie | 9,360 | 48th |
| Scotland girls | Stephanie | 8,597 | 4th |
| New Zealand girls | Stephanie | 5,794 | 11th |
| Ireland girls | Stephanie | 4,342 | 23rd |
| Austria girls | Stephanie | 4,216 | 27th |
| Belgium girls | Stephanie +1 spelling | 1,800 | 45th |
| Norway girls | Stephanie | 480 | 175th |
| Italy girls | Stephanie | 400 | — |
| Denmark girls | Stephanie | 376 | 43rd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Stephanie | 245 | 50th |
| Poland girls | Stephanie | 46 birth registrations | 360th |
| France boys | Stéphanie | 15 | 1,699th |
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.
Stephanie: rank by region
In 2024, Stephanie was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Stephanie | 742 | 6 |
In 2021, Stephanie was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Stephanie | 7 | 2 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Stephanie appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (269th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Stephanie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Stephanie | 7,510 | 11,544 |
| Finland girls | Stephanie +1 spelling | 166 | 308 |
| the Netherlands boys | Stephanie | — | 59 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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 Stephanie lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,539 women called Stephanie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Stephanie | 101 | 0.161 | 518 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Stephanie | 76 | 0.137 | 723 |
| Palmas, Las | Stephanie | 71 | 0.120 | 858 |
| Málaga | Stephanie | 97 | 0.106 | 697 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Stephanie | 103 | 0.100 | 807 |
| Barcelona | Stephanie | 267 | 0.088 | 792 |
Listed in 38 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 14 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
Stephanie 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.