Stephano
Stephano was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,606 among boys’ names; 542 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stephano by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Stephano?
#7,606 among boys’ names, 2025
Stephano fell from #6,266 in 2015 to #7,606 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 6.4 per million.
22 babies in 2000, the peak
Stephano peaked in 2000, when 22 boys were given it, #3,737 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,606 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,143 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,173 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 6 | #12,120 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,297 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,429 | 6.4 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,715 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,059 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,671 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,266 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #9,507 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,958 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,773 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,937 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,692 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,515 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,349 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,402 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,741 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #7,029 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,764 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,955 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,332 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,852 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,737 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,981 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,778 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,913 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,361 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,741 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #5,067 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,945 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,070 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,605 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,139 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,146 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,325 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,527 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,415 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,293 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,083 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,856 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,294 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Stephano a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stephano has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Stephano: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stephano, and how old are they?
An estimated 529 Americans named Stephano and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 13 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 594 people named Stephano (6 women and girls, 588 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 469 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Stephano?
Stephano is a less common spelling of Stefano: SSA has recorded 542 Stephano and 3,150 Stefano since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,415 babies since 1880, Stephano is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 63 babies (17%), the second 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Stephano
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 Stephano and names like it
- Compare Stephano and StefanoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sStephano peaked in 2000.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stephano since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Stephano.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Stephano alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.