boys:
1.4k births since 1950
#3234 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1950
#6346 (18th percentile)
The name Steffan is the #6,346 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,397 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 18.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,234 (29.4% percentile) for all time with 1,397 births since 1950.
Steffan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (first recorded for boys in 1950). Birth data for Steffan is available in 68 out of the 74 years between 1950 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, Steffan reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 8.8% percentile (ranked #708) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 36 births per million (ranked 8.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Steffan ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 10.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Steffan".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Steffan", 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 found one way to pronounce the name Steffan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Steffan is pronounced as STEH-fuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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