Stephaie — girls' name
136 babies named Stephaie in U.S. Social Security records since 1962, with the highest year being 1986. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
66% of everyone ever named Stephaie was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Stephaie in 1986 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Stephaie
The Social Security Administration has registered 136 babies named Stephaie between 1962 and 1988, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Stephaie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1988. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 26 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Stephaie performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 90 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Stephaie shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Stephaie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Stephaie 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 136 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.
Stephaie at a glance
Last recorded 1988Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Stephaie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1988–1962
- Peak year (1986)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1988.
136 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1986 with 26 births in a single year.
Stephaie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 90 births that decade — 66% of Stephaie's all-time total
Stephaie decade highlights
- Peak decade 90 births
- Runner-up 35 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Stephaie's strongest decade
90 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 66% of all-time use.
Stephaie by state
Where Stephaie concentrates geographically — total births since 1962
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Illinois | | 5 | 3.7% |
5 of 136 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Illinois 3.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 3.7% 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, 1962–1988 (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.