Stephan

girls:

229 births since 1956

#5487 (4th percentile)

boys:

27.5k births since 1895

#691 (85th percentile)

overall:

27.7k births since 1895

#1527 (80th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Stephan".

1895 2023 18952023

Key Statistics

Total Births
229
Peak Births
18
Peak Year
1972
First Recorded
1956
Peak Percentile
1.8%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#730
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
27,484
Peak Births
579
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1895
Peak Percentile
53.3%
Current Percentile
12.0%
Peak Rank
#210
Current Rank
#802
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Stephan

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Stephan. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 72.0% confident that Stephan is pronounced as STEH-fuhn. The next most likely pronunciation is STEE-fuhn, at 20.0% confidence.

STEE-fuhn (2 syllables)
20.0% confidence
S T IY1 F AH0 N
STEH-puhn (2 syllables)
8.0% confidence
S T EH1 P AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Stephan. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Stephan, please vote using the thumbs up button.

STEH-fahn (2 syllables)
7 names 31.4k births
S T EH1 F AA0 N
STEH-fihn (2 syllables)
6 names 2k births
S T EH1 F IH0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like S T EH1 F AH0 N) 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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.