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)
The name Stephan is the #1,527 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27,713 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 80.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #691 (84.9% percentile) for all time with 27,484 births since 1895. For girls, it ranks #5,487 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 229 births since 1956.
Stephan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (1895 for boys and 1956 for girls). Birth data for Stephan is available in 121 out of the 129 years between 1895 and 2023 (121 years for boys and 29 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 Stephan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Stephan reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 53.3% percentile (ranked #354) with 276 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 290 births per million (ranked 53.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Stephan ranks #802 for boys (12.0% percentile) with 62 births per million, which is 21.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Stephan reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #730) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Stephan".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Stephan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.0% confident that Stephan is pronounced as STEH-fuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is STEE-fuhn, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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