girls:
7k births since 1939
#1961 (66th percentile)
overall:
7k births since 1939
#3222 (58th percentile)
The name Stefani is the #3,222 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,998 recorded births since 1939. This represents the 58.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,961 (65.7% percentile) for all time with 6,998 births since 1939.
Stefani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1939 (first recorded for girls in 1939).
For girls, Stefani reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 31.1% percentile (ranked #594) with 137 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 137 births per million (ranked 31.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Stefani ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 5.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Stefani".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Stefani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.9% confident that Stefani is pronounced as STEH-fuh-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is stuh-FAH-nee, at 14.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like S T EH1 F AH0 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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