Stephania
Stephania was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,849 among girls’ names; 3,328 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,240 Americans named Stephania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (67% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 21 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stephania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Stephania mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Stephania is “a female given name from Latin.”
Learned borrowing from Latin Stephania. Doublet of Stephanie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Stephania?
#7,849 among girls’ names, 2025
Stephania fell from #4,706 in 2015 to #7,849 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 8.7 per million.
85 babies in 1916, the peak
Stephania peaked in 1916, when 85 girls were given it, #736 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,849 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,550 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,640 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,611 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,589 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,884 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,667 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,874 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,319 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,427 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,706 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,152 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,465 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,772 | 23.8 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,559 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 38 | #4,018 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,558 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,861 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,972 | 20.8 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,783 | 21.6 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,959 | 29.8 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,319 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,989 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,323 | 23.4 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,732 | 30.5 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,060 | 25.3 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,464 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,961 | 24.9 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,433 | 19.5 |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,121 | 37.1 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,411 | 18.8 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,096 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,442 | 28.7 |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,340 | 30.4 |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,538 | 26.1 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,609 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,767 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,404 | 25.8 |
| 1987 | 32 | #3,022 | 18.4 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,670 | 21.6 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,231 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,056 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,789 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,822 | 19.5 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,134 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,307 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,888 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 32 | #2,672 | 20.9 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,591 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,850 | 18.4 |
| 1975 | 44 | #2,018 | 30.2 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,060 | 27.9 |
| 1973 | 41 | #2,010 | 28.1 |
| 1972 | 59 | #1,575 | 38.8 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,932 | 27.0 |
| 1970 | 52 | #1,751 | 29.7 |
| 1969 | 40 | #1,997 | 23.7 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,120 | 20.1 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,204 | 18.2 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,296 | 16.5 |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,736 | 11.9 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,672 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,774 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,238 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,820 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,664 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,798 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,469 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,171 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,879 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,340 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,306 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,910 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,766 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,972 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,521 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,501 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,571 | 5.9 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,287 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,372 | 5.0 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,819 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,780 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,532 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,451 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,997 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,412 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,731 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,880 | 18.4 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,146 | 15.2 |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,270 | 14.0 |
| 1924 | 38 | #1,323 | 30.4 |
| 1923 | 36 | #1,324 | 29.8 |
| 1922 | 45 | #1,155 | 37.5 |
| 1921 | 51 | #1,070 | 41.4 |
| 1920 | 75 | #842 | 62.6 |
| 1919 | 69 | #842 | 61.1 |
| 1918 | 75 | #831 | 64.8 |
| 1917 | 69 | #829 | 63.8 |
| 1916 | 85 | #736 | 81.4 |
| 1915 | 65 | #817 | 66.1 |
| 1914 | 51 | #825 | 67.0 |
| 1913 | 33 | #942 | 52.8 |
| 1912 | 29 | #958 | 52.0 |
| 1911 | 17 | #1,104 | 40.6 |
| 1910 | 21 | #968 | 53.0 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,359 | 31.7 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,428 | 29.9 |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,030 | 47.1 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,310 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,290 | 34.3 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,354 | 32.7 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,573 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,309 | 34.1 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,090 | 42.9 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,365 | 30.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Stephania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stephania has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 115 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Stephania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stephania, and how old are they?
2,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 67% of the 3,328 Americans ever recorded as Stephania. The median Stephania alive today is 33 years old; half are between 21 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 2,771 people named Stephania (2,764 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,202 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 166 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 519 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 576 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 681 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 278 |
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 Stephania born?
The states with the most babies named Stephania are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 350 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 306 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 188 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 118 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 110 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 38 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 36 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 23 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Stephania is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Stephania is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.4 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 Stephania 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 783,310 babies since 1880, Stephania is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 640 babies (2.2%), the fourth most given that year.
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.
More about Stephania and names like it
- Compare Stephania and StephanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sStephania peaked in 1916.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stephania since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Stephania: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Stephania.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Stephania alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.