Steffi — girls' name
532 babies named Steffi in U.S. Social Security records since 1942, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
35% of everyone ever named Steffi was born in this single decade.
36 babies were named Steffi in 1989 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Steffi
The Social Security Administration has registered 532 babies named Steffi between 1942 and 2019, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Steffi currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 36 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Steffi performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 184 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Steffi shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 65 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Steffi in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Steffi in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 532 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Steffi at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Steffi popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1942
- Peak year (1989)
- 36
- Annual births at peak — across 78 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
532 total births across 78 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1989 with 36 births in a single year.
Steffi by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 184 births that decade — 35% of Steffi's all-time total
Steffi decade highlights
- Peak decade 184 births
- Runner-up 98 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Steffi's strongest decade
184 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 35% of all-time use.
Steffi by state
Where Steffi concentrates geographically — total births since 1942
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 65 | 12.2% |
| #2 | New York | | 28 | 5.3% |
| #3 | Florida | | 6 | 1.1% |
| #4 | Texas | | 5 | 0.9% |
65 of 532 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 12.2% of nationwide
- New York 5.3% of nationwide
- Florida 1.1% of nationwide
- Texas 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 12.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1942–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.