girls:
744.5k births since 1891
#31 (99th percentile)
boys:
2.6k births since 1947
#2454 (46th percentile)
overall:
747.1k births since 1891
#76 (99th percentile)
The name Stephanie is the #76 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 747,142 recorded births since 1891. This represents the 99.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #31 (99.5% percentile) for all time with 744,504 births since 1891. For boys, it ranks #2,454 (46.5% percentile) for all time with 2,638 births since 1947.
Stephanie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1891 (1891 for girls and 1947 for boys).
The name Stephanie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Stephanie reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 99.4% percentile (ranked #6) with 12,272 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 12,768 births per million (ranked 99.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1987, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Stephanie ranks #420 for girls (55.7% percentile) with 374 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Stephanie reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 18.7% percentile (ranked #616) with 68 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 68 births per million (ranked 18.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Stephanie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Stephanie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Stephanie is pronounced as STEH-fuh-nee, which has 3 syllables.
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