Stefani
Stefani was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,095 among girls’ names; 7,033 Americans have been recorded with it since 1939 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,710 Americans named Stefani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 29 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stefani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Stefani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Stefani is “a female given name from French, a less common spelling of Stephanie.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Stefani?
#7,095 among girls’ names, 2025
Stefani fell from #4,575 in 2015 to #7,095 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 10.0 per million.
282 babies in 1990, the peak
Stefani peaked in 1990, when 282 girls were given it, #737 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,095 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,130 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 14 | #8,001 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,678 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,143 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,883 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,983 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,374 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,057 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,592 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,575 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,169 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,634 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,702 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,994 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,153 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,669 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,579 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 92 | #2,176 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,126 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,051 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,171 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 81 | #2,162 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 120 | #1,562 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 108 | #1,682 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 104 | #1,698 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 126 | #1,405 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 141 | #1,281 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 156 | #1,178 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 163 | #1,115 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 169 | #1,059 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 168 | #1,074 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 238 | #830 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 213 | #917 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 242 | #836 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 282 | #737 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 260 | #755 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 248 | #757 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 213 | #821 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 192 | #865 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 159 | #971 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 171 | #882 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 171 | #888 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 143 | #1,028 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 138 | #1,043 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 122 | #1,122 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 102 | #1,260 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 98 | #1,263 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 125 | #1,058 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 93 | #1,224 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 97 | #1,201 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 122 | #997 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 118 | #1,008 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 115 | #1,021 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 114 | #1,064 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 149 | #890 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 114 | #1,023 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 78 | #1,243 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 69 | #1,320 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 66 | #1,348 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 56 | #1,498 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,662 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,946 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 39 | #1,853 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,350 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,638 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,387 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,846 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,636 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,445 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,401 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,064 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,685 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,742 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,920 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,891 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,155 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,819 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,423 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,197 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,491 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,647 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,150 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,285 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,910 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,288 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,869 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Stefani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stefani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Stefani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stefani, and how old are they?
6,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 7,033 Americans ever recorded as Stefani. The median Stefani alive today is 37 years old; half are between 29 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 6,915 people named Stefani (6,894 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,697 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 21 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 347 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,530 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,080 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 275 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Stefani born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,478 | 1.3× |
Where Stefani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Stefani is most over-represented in Texas: since 1939 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Stefani with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 61,868 babies since 1880, Stefani is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 108 babies (15%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Stefani
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Stefani and names like it
- Compare Stefani and StefanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sStefani peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stefani since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Stefani.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Stefani alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.