Stephine
Stephine was last recorded in 2009, when 7 babies were given it; 1,685 Americans have been recorded with it between 1952 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Stephine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 36 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stephine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Stephine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,043, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
65 babies in 1981, the peak
Stephine peaked in 1981, when 65 girls were given it, #1,753 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7 | #15,043 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,660 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,525 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,949 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,861 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,609 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,212 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,388 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,922 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,465 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 25 | #4,551 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,099 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,445 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,811 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,083 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,594 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,098 | 21.0 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,817 | 23.3 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,871 | 21.9 |
| 1990 | 58 | #2,223 | 30.5 |
| 1989 | 60 | #2,089 | 32.5 |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,123 | 30.9 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,481 | 24.2 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,860 | 35.6 |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,074 | 30.2 |
| 1984 | 52 | #1,984 | 30.9 |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,854 | 34.1 |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,109 | 28.9 |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,753 | 39.0 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,431 | 24.1 |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,212 | 28.0 |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,119 | 29.4 |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,950 | 33.3 |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,168 | 27.3 |
| 1975 | 40 | #2,162 | 27.4 |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,908 | 31.3 |
| 1973 | 54 | #1,684 | 37.0 |
| 1972 | 47 | #1,829 | 30.9 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,334 | 20.4 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,983 | 24.6 |
| 1969 | 36 | #2,131 | 21.3 |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,880 | 25.0 |
| 1967 | 35 | #2,006 | 21.2 |
| 1966 | 18 | #3,026 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,398 | 14.7 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,898 | 10.6 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,848 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,146 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,585 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,122 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,498 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,013 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,303 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,433 | 4.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,861 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Stephine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stephine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Stephine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stephine, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,685 Americans ever recorded as Stephine. The median Stephine alive today is 44 years old; half are between 36 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 1,823 people named Stephine (1,806 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,623 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 97 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 597 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 737 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 168 |
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 Stephine born?
The states with the most babies named Stephine are California, Texas and New York, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 136 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 105 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 51 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Alabama | 32 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Mississippi | 12 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Stephine 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 782,248 babies since 1880, Stephine is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 601 babies recorded by SSA was a Stephine (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 Stephine
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 Stephine and names like it
- Compare Stephine and StephanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sStephine peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stephine since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Stephine.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Stephine alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.