Stephenie
Stephenie was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 5,771 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,320 Americans named Stephenie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 37 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stephenie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Stephenie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Stephenie is “a female given name, variant of Stephanie.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Stephenie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,379, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
199 babies in 1974, the peak
Stephenie peaked in 1974, when 199 girls were given it, #723 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,379 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,312 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,388 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,461 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,442 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,512 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,194 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,325 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,851 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,415 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 15 | #8,164 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,531 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,471 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,640 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,032 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,044 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,934 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,563 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,690 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,647 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,742 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,772 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,154 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,237 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,286 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 54 | #2,444 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,444 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,177 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 90 | #1,669 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 92 | #1,648 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 106 | #1,494 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 124 | #1,330 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 149 | #1,158 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 140 | #1,173 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 151 | #1,058 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 171 | #949 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 140 | #1,079 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 143 | #1,045 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 133 | #1,058 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 160 | #934 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 172 | #892 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 160 | #935 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 165 | #916 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 167 | #896 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 176 | #845 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 165 | #876 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 194 | #749 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 151 | #884 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 199 | #723 | 0.14 |
| 1973 | 170 | #784 | 0.12 |
| 1972 | 178 | #774 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 170 | #821 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 142 | #915 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 133 | #921 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 122 | #938 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 98 | #1,045 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 93 | #1,094 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 95 | #1,077 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 60 | #1,469 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,389 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,665 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 47 | #1,658 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 31 | #2,085 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 39 | #1,787 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,157 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,340 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 43 | #1,632 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,461 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,065 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,863 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,856 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,693 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,802 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 24 | #2,000 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,344 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,475 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,226 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,184 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,837 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,175 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,911 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,475 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,677 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,622 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,903 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,199 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,744 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,232 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 10 | #3,007 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,870 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,372 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Stephenie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stephenie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 92 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Stephenie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stephenie, and how old are they?
5,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 5,771 Americans ever recorded as Stephenie. The median Stephenie alive today is 46 years old; half are between 37 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 5,077 people named Stephenie (5,066 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,413 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 36 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 513 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,250 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,990 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 452 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 81 |
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 Stephenie born?
The states with the most babies named Stephenie are California, Texas and Ohio, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 588 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 389 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 208 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 183 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 172 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 172 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 142 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 141 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 101 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 101 | not ranked | 0.8× |
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 Stephenie 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 767,696 babies since 1880, Stephenie is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 557 babies recorded by SSA was a Stephenie (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 Stephenie
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 Stephenie and names like it
- Compare Stephenie and StephanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sStephenie peaked in 1974.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stephenie since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Stephenie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Stephenie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.