Stefania
Stefania was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,217 among girls’ names; 2,653 Americans have been recorded with it since 1901 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,180 Americans named Stefania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 13 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stefania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Stefania mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Stefania is “a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Stephanie”
Learned borrowing from Latin Stephania.
/stɛˈfaɲ.ja/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Stefania?
#5,217 among girls’ names, 2025
Stefania fell from #3,472 in 2015 to #5,217 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 15.6 per million.
60 babies in 2004, the peak
Stefania peaked in 2004, when 60 girls were given it, #2,733 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,217 | 15.6 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,453 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 56 | #3,012 | 34.9 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,098 | 21.9 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,333 | 29.3 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,833 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,445 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,238 | 29.4 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,297 | 19.7 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,318 | 27.7 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,472 | 25.8 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,837 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,147 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,771 | 23.8 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,831 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,509 | 25.9 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,453 | 26.1 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,413 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,908 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,460 | 24.7 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,494 | 23.3 |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,733 | 32.7 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,988 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,967 | 27.8 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,625 | 32.2 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,847 | 28.1 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,303 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,560 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,769 | 25.9 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,840 | 24.5 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,345 | 19.3 |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,496 | 28.6 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,927 | 22.7 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,265 | 32.0 |
| 1991 | 56 | #2,312 | 29.9 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,947 | 20.5 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,645 | 23.3 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,789 | 21.3 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,405 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,896 | 19.2 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,791 | 19.8 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,836 | 19.0 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,776 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,634 | 21.3 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,055 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,125 | 16.9 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,063 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,929 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,987 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,324 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,619 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,421 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,623 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,522 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,077 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,925 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,008 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,752 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,578 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,444 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,431 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,320 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,233 | 4.2 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,471 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,732 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,901 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,691 | 4.1 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,657 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,532 | 7.5 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,622 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,299 | 13.6 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,710 | 10.8 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,274 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,858 | 18.7 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,305 | 30.0 |
| 1919 | 39 | #1,208 | 34.5 |
| 1918 | 36 | #1,274 | 31.1 |
| 1917 | 38 | #1,179 | 35.1 |
| 1916 | 37 | #1,188 | 35.4 |
| 1915 | 24 | #1,516 | 24.4 |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,222 | 34.1 |
| 1913 | 20 | #1,301 | 32.0 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,710 | 21.5 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,166 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,329 | 32.8 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,358 | 31.7 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,834 | 20.9 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,698 | 23.7 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,195 | 17.1 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,913 | 20.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Stefania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stefania has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 90 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Stefania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stefania, and how old are they?
2,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 2,653 Americans ever recorded as Stefania. The median Stefania alive today is 25 years old; half are between 13 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 3,670 people named Stefania (3,666 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,967 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 40 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 271 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 610 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 714 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 547 |
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 Stefania born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | #2,392 | 2.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,442 | 1.1× |
Where Stefania is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Stefania is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 2.4 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 Stefania 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 58,317 babies since 1880, Stefania is the fifth most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 128 babies (20%), the second 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.
More about Stefania and names like it
- Compare Stefania and StefanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sStefania peaked in 2004.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stefania since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Stefania: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Stefania.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Stefania alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.