Steffan
Steffan was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,590 among boys’ names; 1,405 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,320 Americans named Steffan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 29 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Steffan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Steffan mean?
Wiktionary, Welsh section
Steffan is “a male given name, equivalent to English Stephen”
From Late Latin Stephanus, from Ancient Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Welsh section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Steffan?
#9,590 among boys’ names, 2025
Steffan fell from #6,264 in 2015 to #9,590 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 4.7 per million.
73 babies in 1994, the peak
Steffan peaked in 1994, when 73 boys were given it, #1,366 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,590 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,656 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,884 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,943 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,983 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,619 | 4.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,611 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,523 | 9.0 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,264 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 10 | #8,041 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 11 | #7,477 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,255 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,429 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,547 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,811 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,734 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,554 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,482 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,568 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,746 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,167 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,161 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,435 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,532 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,990 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,636 | 16.7 |
| 1997 | 28 | #2,809 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 49 | #1,864 | 25.9 |
| 1995 | 37 | #2,199 | 19.4 |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,366 | 37.8 |
| 1993 | 44 | #1,892 | 22.4 |
| 1992 | 66 | #1,409 | 33.0 |
| 1991 | 55 | #1,566 | 27.2 |
| 1990 | 58 | #1,494 | 28.2 |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,354 | 33.0 |
| 1988 | 62 | #1,314 | 32.4 |
| 1987 | 62 | #1,241 | 33.2 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,316 | 30.4 |
| 1985 | 40 | #1,610 | 21.6 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,080 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,329 | 12.3 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,695 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,561 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 20 | #2,521 | 11.2 |
| 1979 | 10 | #4,036 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,781 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,576 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,496 | 11.5 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,213 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,296 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,206 | 12.2 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,966 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,119 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 19 | #2,114 | 10.2 |
| 1969 | 23 | #1,760 | 12.9 |
| 1968 | 9 | #3,078 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,588 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,956 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,455 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,982 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,399 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,657 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 19 | #1,939 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,305 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,503 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,183 | 3.8 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,769 | 2.9 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,684 | 3.1 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,285 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Steffan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Steffan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Steffan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Steffan, and how old are they?
1,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,405 Americans ever recorded as Steffan. The median Steffan alive today is 35 years old; half are between 29 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 1,309 people named Steffan (22 women and girls, 1,287 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,302 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 65 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 197 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 707 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 237 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 108 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 55,535 babies since 1880, Steffan is the fifth most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 342 babies (2.3%), the fourth 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 Steffan
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 Steffan and names like it
- Compare Steffan and StephanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSteffan peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Steffan since 1910.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Steffan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Steffan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Steffan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.