girls:
14 births since 1988
#5702 (0th percentile)
boys:
8.7k births since 1955
#1269 (72nd percentile)
overall:
8.7k births since 1955
#2899 (63rd percentile)
The name Stephon is the #2,899 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,721 recorded births since 1955. This represents the 62.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,269 (72.3% percentile) for all time with 8,707 births since 1955. For girls, it ranks #5,702 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 14 births since 1988.
Stephon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1955 (1955 for boys and 1988 for girls). Birth data for Stephon is available in 66 out of the 69 years between 1955 and 2023 (66 years for boys and 2 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 Stephon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Stephon reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 42.6% percentile (ranked #455) with 203 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 203 births per million (ranked 42.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1998, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Stephon ranks #857 for boys (5.9% percentile) with 32 births per million, which is 15.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Stephon reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #804) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% 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 "Stephon".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Stephon", 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 has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Stephon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Stephon is pronounced as STEH-fuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is STEH-fahn, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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