Stephanie

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Stephanie is ranked 533rd among girls in 2024 (571 births). Its best rank was 6th, in 1984–1987.

Rank in 2024: #533down 65 from 2023
Births in 2024: 5710.04% of girls
Peak year: 199024,864 births
Best rank: #6first in 1984
Since 1891: 747,234people given the name

Babies named Stephanie, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

744,596 girls have been named Stephanie in the United States since 1891, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 24,864 births — 1.3% of all girls recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 571 births in 2024, against 24,864 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 1980s alone account for 29%. It has spent 128 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 48 of them in the top 100 and 17 in the top 10.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,638 boys have also been given it, 0.35% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Stephanie
1890s	100
1900s	363
1910s	2,673
1920s	1,988
1930s	1,603
1940s	11,936
1950s	35,557
1960s	92,818
1970s	160,466
1980s	218,175
1990s	149,837
2000s	49,956
2010s	15,841
2020s	3,283

In 1990, its biggest year

Stephanie was the 7th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1990 were Jessica, Ashley, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1990.

Names that rose and fell with Stephanie

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.