Stephen

girls:

2.9k births since 1912

#3204 (44th percentile)

boys:

863k births since 1880

#36 (99th percentile)

overall:

865.9k births since 1880

#57 (99th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
2,930
Peak Births
97
Peak Year
1985
First Recorded
1912
Peak Percentile
11.5%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#466
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
863,003
Peak Births
23,054
Peak Year
1951
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
97.0%
Current Percentile
62.6%
Peak Rank
#19
Current Rank
#341
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Stephen

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Stephen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 36.5% confident that Stephen is pronounced as STEE-vuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is STEE-fuhn, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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36.5%
2
25.0%
2
21.2%
2
17.3%
STEE-fuhn (2 syllables)
25.0% confidence
S T IY1 F AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

shahn-TAY-vee-uhs (4 syllables)
2 names 10 births
SH AA0 N T EY1 V IY0 AH0 S

Names with this pronunciation:

shahn-TEEK (2 syllables)
1 name 55 births
SH AA0 N T IY1 K

Names with this pronunciation:

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 IY1 V 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.