girls:
14.8k births since 1925
#1259 (78th percentile)
boys:
12.3k births since 1919
#1039 (77th percentile)
overall:
27.1k births since 1919
#1542 (80th percentile)
The name Stevie is the #1,542 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27,112 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 80.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,259 (78.0% percentile) for all time with 14,770 births since 1925. For boys, it ranks #1,039 (77.3% percentile) for all time with 12,342 births since 1919.
Stevie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for boys and 1925 for girls). Birth data for Stevie is available in 103 out of the 105 years between 1919 and 2023 (101 years for boys and 81 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 Stevie is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 97.1% of babies named Stevie were girls. Interestingly, until around 1984, the name was more popular for boys (92.5% boys from 1919 to 1983), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (83.6% girls from 1984 to 2023).
For girls, Stevie reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 75.6% percentile (ranked #232) with 716 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 716 births per million (ranked 75.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Stevie is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #232 (75.6% percentile) with 716 births per million.
For boys, Stevie reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 47.8% percentile (ranked #344) with 202 births per million. The name was most common in 1959, with 208 births per million (ranked 46.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Stevie ranks #878 for boys (3.6% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 10.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Stevie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Stevie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.9% confident that Stevie is pronounced as STEE-vee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is STEH-vee, at 9.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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