boys:
867 births since 1961
#3720 (19th percentile)
overall:
867 births since 1961
#6872 (11th percentile)
The name Stefen is the #6,872 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 867 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 11.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,720 (18.8% percentile) for all time with 867 births since 1961.
Stefen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (first recorded for boys in 1961). Birth data for Stefen is available in 54 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Stefen reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #717) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 20 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Stefen ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 19.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Stefen".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Stefen is pronounced as STEH-fuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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