Stephane — unisex name

What the Data Says About Stephane

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,128 babies named Stephane between 1915 and 2010, spanning 96 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Stephane currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 40 babies received it in a single year. Stephane is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 702 additional births since 1961.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Stephane performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 299 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Stephane shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 81 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Stephane in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Stephane 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 1,128 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.