Stehanie — girls' name
207 babies named Stehanie in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1987. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
55% of everyone ever named Stehanie was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Stehanie in 1987 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Stehanie
The Social Security Administration has registered 207 babies named Stehanie between 1968 and 1994, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Stehanie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 18 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Stehanie performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 113 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Stehanie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Stehanie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Stehanie 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 207 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.
Stehanie at a glance
Last recorded 1994Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Stehanie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1994–1968
- Peak year (1987)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1994.
207 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1987 with 18 births in a single year.
Stehanie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 113 births that decade — 55% of Stehanie's all-time total
Stehanie decade highlights
- Peak decade 113 births
- Runner-up 61 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Stehanie's strongest decade
113 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 55% of all-time use.
Stehanie by state
Where Stehanie concentrates geographically — total births since 1968
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 2.4% |
5 of 207 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 2.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.4% 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, 1968–1994 (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.