Steffani
Steffani was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 997 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Steffani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Steffani?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,190, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
64 babies in 1990, the peak
Steffani peaked in 1990, when 64 girls were given it, #2,073 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #16,190 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,380 | 3.9 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,027 | 5.1 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,278 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,947 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,812 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,841 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,402 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,662 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,076 | 6.1 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 12 | #8,161 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,672 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,355 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,738 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,407 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,220 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,870 | 23.2 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,723 | 24.4 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,285 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 64 | #2,073 | 33.7 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,605 | 23.9 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,526 | 24.1 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,314 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 21 | #4,010 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,322 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,406 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,265 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,884 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,312 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,709 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,395 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,061 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,404 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,517 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,919 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,838 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,457 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,818 | 16.4 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,418 | 19.2 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,297 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,602 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,585 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,820 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,168 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,432 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,596 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,501 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,421 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,499 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,661 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,334 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,902 | 2.4 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,434 | 4.3 |
| 1950 | 5 | #6,004 | 2.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,166 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Steffani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Steffani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Steffani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Steffani, and how old are they?
An estimated 947 Americans named Steffani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 33 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,019 people named Steffani (1,019 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 961 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Steffani?
Steffani is a less common spelling of Stephanie: SSA has recorded 997 Steffani and 747,786 Stephanie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 807,830 babies since 1880, Steffani is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 651 babies recorded by SSA was a Steffani (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Steffani
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 Steffani and names like it
- Compare Steffani and StephanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSteffani peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Steffani since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Steffani.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Steffani alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.