Steph — unisex name

What the Data Says About Steph

The Social Security Administration has registered 66 babies named Steph between 1959 and 1971, spanning 13 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Steph currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1971. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Steph is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2021.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Steph performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 42 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Steph shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Steph 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 66 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.