girls:
42 births since 1977
#5674 (1st percentile)
boys:
20.7k births since 1910
#802 (83rd percentile)
overall:
20.8k births since 1910
#1777 (77th percentile)
The name Stefan is the #1,777 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,785 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 77.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #802 (82.5% percentile) for all time with 20,743 births since 1910. For girls, it ranks #5,674 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 1977.
Stefan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for boys and 1977 for girls). Birth data for Stefan is available in 112 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023 (112 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Stefan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Stefan reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 57.8% percentile (ranked #321) with 339 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 339 births per million (ranked 57.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Stefan ranks #686 for boys (24.7% percentile) with 127 births per million, which is 37.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Stefan reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #792) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Stefan".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Stefan", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 32 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Stephan" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Stephan..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Stefan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.4% confident that Stefan is pronounced as STEH-fuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is STEH-fahn, at 14.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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