Stephani
Stephani was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 5,305 Americans have been recorded with it between 1940 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,030 Americans named Stephani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 34 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stephani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Stephani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Stephani is “a female given name.”
Two main origins:
Borrowed from German Stephani, a Latinized patronymic surname from the personal name Stephanus.
Variant spelling of Italian Stefani.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Stephani?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,041, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
637 babies in 1989, the peak
Stephani peaked in 1989, when 637 girls were given it, #391 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #15,041 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,962 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,415 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,033 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,336 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,468 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,939 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,815 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,228 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,460 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 23 | #5,811 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,309 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,735 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,088 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,181 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,440 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,326 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,556 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,572 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,318 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,765 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,846 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,562 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,848 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,729 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,180 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 65 | #2,154 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 86 | #1,747 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 93 | #1,608 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 104 | #1,506 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 136 | #1,260 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 152 | #1,161 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 164 | #1,099 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 172 | #1,043 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 637 | #391 | 0.35 |
| 1988 | 151 | #1,057 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 159 | #992 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 145 | #1,045 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 138 | #1,069 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 130 | #1,079 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 131 | #1,065 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 130 | #1,091 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 99 | #1,291 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 99 | #1,298 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 88 | #1,408 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 95 | #1,286 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 86 | #1,338 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 81 | #1,340 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 74 | #1,428 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 82 | #1,312 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 84 | #1,253 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 95 | #1,153 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 94 | #1,210 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 107 | #1,107 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 105 | #1,086 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 87 | #1,164 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 88 | #1,132 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 70 | #1,301 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 58 | #1,459 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 62 | #1,441 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 44 | #1,752 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,252 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,994 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,143 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,451 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,371 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,909 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,613 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,273 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,511 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,796 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,397 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,687 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,232 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,197 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,112 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,717 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,360 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,644 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,151 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,698 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,371 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,952 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Stephani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stephani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Stephani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stephani, and how old are they?
5,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 5,305 Americans ever recorded as Stephani. The median Stephani alive today is 39 years old; half are between 34 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 5,154 people named Stephani (5,143 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,082 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 337 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,290 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,550 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 716 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 112 |
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 Stephani born?
The states with the most babies named Stephani are California, New York and Texas, with 66% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 768 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 603 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 387 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 141 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 135 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 90 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 87 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 73 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Washington | 62 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 49 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Stephani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Stephani is most over-represented in New York: since 1940 it was given 1.5 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 girls’ 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 Stephani with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 790,394 babies since 1880, Stephani is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 631 babies recorded by SSA was a Stephani (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Stephani
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 Stephani and names like it
- Compare Stephani and StephanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sStephani peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stephani since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Stephani.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Stephani alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.