Stellan
Stellan was given to 186 boys in 2025, #1,140 among boys’ names; 1,600 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,590 Americans named Stellan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stellan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Stellan mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Stellan is “a male given name”
Unknown; first recorded in 1597 for a German immigrant to Sweden.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Stellan?
#1,140 among boys’ names, 2025
Stellan rose from #1,702 in 2015 to #1,140 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.11 per 1,000.
192 babies in 2025, the peak
Stellan peaked in 2025, when 192 babies were given it (186 boys, #1,140 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 126 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 186 | #1,140 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 126 | #1,446 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 122 | #1,480 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 94 | #1,770 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 116 | #1,527 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 96 | #1,671 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 104 | #1,605 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 77 | #1,934 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 80 | #1,856 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 78 | #1,901 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 92 | #1,702 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,133 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,134 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,264 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,100 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,906 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,144 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 26 | #4,018 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,773 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,740 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,436 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,747 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,738 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,373 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,448 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Stellan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,600 Americans recorded as Stellan, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls and 186 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Stellan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stellan, and how old are they?
1,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,600 Americans ever recorded as Stellan. The median Stellan alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 836 people named Stellan (11 women and girls, 825 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 854 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 275 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,310 |
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 Stellan born?
The states with the most babies named Stellan are California, Texas and Minnesota, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 30 | #827 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,546 | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 9 | #580 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,018 | 0.2× |
| Washington | 7 | #887 | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #903 | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 7 | #618 | 0.3× |
| New York | 6 | #1,732 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,807 | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,334 | 0.4× |
Where Stellan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Stellan is most over-represented in California: since 1998 it was given 1.2 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 boys’ 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 Stellan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Stellan
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 Stellan and names like it
- Compare Stellan and KyzerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sStellan peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stellan since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Stellan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Stellan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Stellan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.