Stephany
Stephany was given to 58 girls in 2025, #2,927 among girls’ names; 15,176 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,300 Americans named Stephany and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 22 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stephany by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Stephany mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Stephany is “a female given name from French, a less common spelling of Stephanie.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Stephany?
#2,927 among girls’ names, 2025
Stephany fell from #1,486 in 2015 to #2,927 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 86.8 to 36.1 per million.
564 babies in 1990, the peak
Stephany peaked in 1990, when 564 girls were given it, #441 among girls’ names. The 58 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,927 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 62 | #2,771 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,086 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,119 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,107 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,390 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 76 | #2,371 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,269 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 99 | #2,004 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 111 | #1,863 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 155 | #1,486 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 120 | #1,744 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 153 | #1,465 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 200 | #1,220 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 202 | #1,194 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 259 | #981 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 269 | #987 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 307 | #904 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 361 | #798 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 340 | #809 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 386 | #708 | 0.21 |
| 2004 | 350 | #750 | 0.19 |
| 2003 | 385 | #682 | 0.21 |
| 2002 | 376 | #673 | 0.21 |
| 2001 | 382 | #659 | 0.21 |
| 2000 | 321 | #726 | 0.18 |
| 1999 | 346 | #662 | 0.20 |
| 1998 | 340 | #677 | 0.19 |
| 1997 | 355 | #633 | 0.20 |
| 1996 | 443 | #533 | 0.25 |
| 1995 | 410 | #563 | 0.23 |
| 1994 | 490 | #505 | 0.27 |
| 1993 | 493 | #501 | 0.27 |
| 1992 | 549 | #453 | 0.30 |
| 1991 | 529 | #463 | 0.28 |
| 1990 | 564 | #441 | 0.30 |
| 1989 | 502 | #473 | 0.27 |
| 1988 | 459 | #495 | 0.26 |
| 1987 | 390 | #524 | 0.22 |
| 1986 | 259 | #701 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 168 | #938 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 139 | #1,027 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 109 | #1,192 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 147 | #1,009 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 129 | #1,087 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 125 | #1,108 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 131 | #1,060 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 122 | #1,083 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 116 | #1,109 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 117 | #1,052 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 104 | #1,125 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 97 | #1,168 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 105 | #1,094 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 123 | #981 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 103 | #1,138 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 126 | #995 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 106 | #1,076 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 87 | #1,165 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 106 | #993 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 62 | #1,400 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 62 | #1,403 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 55 | #1,546 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 61 | #1,434 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,882 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 69 | #1,350 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 50 | #1,593 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,715 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 54 | #1,462 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 68 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,594 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 49 | #1,460 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 46 | #1,499 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 33 | #1,754 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 50 | #1,381 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,498 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 49 | #1,319 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 53 | #1,260 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 62 | #1,141 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,435 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,641 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,936 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,540 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 11 | #3,012 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,971 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,376 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,561 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,392 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,865 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,402 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,501 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,419 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,879 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,373 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,350 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,452 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,499 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,340 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,828 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,844 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,676 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,961 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,922 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,128 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,748 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,448 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,246 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,701 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 40 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,398 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,110 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,754 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,371 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,937 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,369 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Stephany a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stephany has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 115 years of records.
Girls and boys named Stephany: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stephany, and how old are they?
14,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 15,176 Americans ever recorded as Stephany. The median Stephany alive today is 32 years old; half are between 22 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 15,120 people named Stephany (15,072 women and girls, 48 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,138 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 78 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 731 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,580 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,640 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,110 |
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 Stephany born?
The states with the most babies named Stephany are Texas, California and New York, with 80% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,372 | 1.2× |
| California | 8 | #2,467 | 1.8× |
| New York | 7 | #1,810 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,124 | 1.1× |
Where Stephany is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Stephany is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.8 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 Stephany 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 783,744 babies since 1880, Stephany is the second most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 670 babies (8.7%), again the second most given.
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 Stephany
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 Stephany and names like it
- Compare Stephany and StephanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sStephany peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stephany since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Stephany.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Stephany alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.