Stephenson
The boy's name Stephenson has been in the national records since 1944, with 217 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2014. About 180 Stephensons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Stephenson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 217
- Estimated living today
- 180
- Median age today
- 44
- Peak year
- 1953
- Best rank
- 2,186th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1944
How old the living Stephensons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 217 babies given the name since 1944, about 180 are alive — 82 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 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.
Notable Stephensons
- Stephenson King (born 1958)former Prime minister of Saint Lucia
People named Stephenson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1953
The most popular boys’ names the year Stephenson peaked:
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Stephenson against another name
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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.