Stepan — boys' name

What the Data Says About Stepan

The Social Security Administration has registered 254 babies named Stepan between 1981 and 2023, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Stepan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 15 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Stepan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 100 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Stepan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 20 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Stepan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Stepan 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 254 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.