How rare is the name Stefanie?

34,972 people in the United States have the first name Stefanie, about 1 in 8,636. It ranks #1,144 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

STEFANIE

#1,144

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
34,972
About
1 in 8,636
This common or more
71.9%
Who bears it

Of the 34,972 people named Stefanie, 76.3% reported their origin as White, 13.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.5% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Stefanie peaked in 1983, when 2,676 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19112025
Peak year
1983
Births that year
2,676
In 2025*
12 ▼100%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 37,187 babies have been given the name since 1911. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Stefanie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #348. The largest share of babies named Stefanie, 51%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1910s#4,37491
1920s#6,85262
1930s#8,00728
1940s#2,841275
1950s#2,086650
1960s#8923,768
1970s#5328,720
1980s#34815,869
1990s#9005,344
2000s#2,2661,723
2010s#5,480524
2020s#9,612133
Greatest Generation 1901–270.4%
Silent Generation 1928–450.4%
Baby boom 1946–644.5%
Generation X 1965–8034.9%
Millennials 1981–9651%
Generation Z 1997–127.7%
2013 and later1.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Stefanie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Stefanie has been most common in New Jersey (1.7×), Connecticut (1.5×), and New York (1.4×), and least common in Maine (0.24×).

34,176 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Stefanie

#1,142 Lora · 35,094#1,143 Ignacio · 35,092#1,145 Darla · 34,954#1,146 Humberto · 34,796

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Stefanie, most common first.

#57 Stephanie · 657,760#1,448 Stefan · 23,384#3,151 Stefani · 6,915#3,911 Stefany · 4,999#4,337 Stefano · 4,356#4,885 Stefania · 3,670#6,562 Steffanie · 2,432#12,263 Steffani · 1,019

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