Stephon
Stephon was given to 46 boys in 2025, #2,789 among boys’ names; 8,822 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,410 Americans named Stephon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 21 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stephon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Stephon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Stephon is “a male given name, variant of Stephen.”
Variant of Stephen.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Stephon?
#2,789 among boys’ names, 2025
Stephon fell from #1,530 in 2015 to #2,789 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 56.3 to 26.9 per million.
406 babies in 1997, the peak
Stephon peaked in 1997, when 406 boys were given it, #504 among boys’ names. The 46 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #2,789 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 53 | #2,552 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,311 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,164 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 80 | #1,911 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 75 | #1,945 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 76 | #1,948 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 94 | #1,686 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 90 | #1,733 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,511 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 108 | #1,530 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,558 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 85 | #1,729 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 125 | #1,357 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 132 | #1,304 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 117 | #1,423 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 149 | #1,213 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 148 | #1,197 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 118 | #1,398 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 175 | #1,041 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 160 | #1,044 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 188 | #910 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 172 | #954 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 178 | #908 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 189 | #850 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 239 | #724 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 292 | #622 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 328 | #587 | 0.17 |
| 1997 | 406 | #504 | 0.22 |
| 1996 | 348 | #545 | 0.18 |
| 1995 | 355 | #538 | 0.19 |
| 1994 | 370 | #531 | 0.19 |
| 1993 | 274 | #621 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 246 | #662 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 361 | #532 | 0.18 |
| 1990 | 285 | #590 | 0.14 |
| 1989 | 241 | #641 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 204 | #661 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 187 | #670 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 152 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 124 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 109 | #842 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 89 | #940 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 76 | #1,047 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,245 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 46 | #1,408 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 35 | #1,668 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 37 | #1,564 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 45 | #1,364 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 31 | #1,703 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 28 | #1,778 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 28 | #1,743 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 30 | #1,608 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 63 | #1,022 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 39 | #1,374 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 54 | #1,130 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 32 | #1,432 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,115 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 41 | #1,178 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 42 | #1,159 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 56 | #994 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 90 | #798 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 109 | #745 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 134 | #672 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 102 | #767 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 66 | #937 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,506 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,330 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Stephon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stephon has been given almost only to boys: 14 girls in 68 years of records.
Girls and boys named Stephon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stephon, and how old are they?
8,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 8,822 Americans ever recorded as Stephon. The median Stephon alive today is 30 years old; half are between 21 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 6,586 people named Stephon (56 women and girls, 6,530 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,166 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 397 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 574 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,040 |
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 Stephon born?
The states with the most babies named Stephon are Florida, Texas and Georgia, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | #1,601 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,908 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,518 | 1.1× |
Where Stephon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Stephon is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1955 it was given 5.2 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 boys’ 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 Stephon 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 907,191 babies since 1880, Stephon is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 977 babies (4.7%), again the third 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 Stephon
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 Stephon and names like it
- Compare Stephon and StephenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sStephon peaked in 1997.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stephon since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Stephon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Stephon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.