How rare is the name Stephany?

15,120 people in the United States have the first name Stephany, about 1 in 19,976. It ranks #1,893 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

STEPHANY

#1,893

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
15,120
About
1 in 19,976
This common or more
77.6%
Who bears it

Of the 15,120 people named Stephany, 56.4% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 32.7% as White and 6.5% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Stephany peaked in 1990, when 564 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19102025
Peak year
1990
Births that year
564
In 2025*
58 ▼90%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 15,176 babies have been given the name since 1910. 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.

Stephany by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,016. The largest share of babies named Stephany, 38.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1910s#2,926174
1920s#6,01081
1930s#4,672101
1940s#2,742294
1950s#2,461476
1960s#2,166696
1970s#1,8171,144
1980s#1,2822,427
1990s#1,0164,524
2000s#1,3893,477
2010s#2,7471,456
2020s#5,320326
Greatest Generation 1901–271.6%
Silent Generation 1928–451.4%
Baby boom 1946–646.2%
Generation X 1965–8011.1%
Millennials 1981–9638.1%
Generation Z 1997–1234.1%
2013 and later7.4%

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 Stephany is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Stephany has been most common in California (3.2×), Arizona (2.2×), and Florida (2×), and least common in Oklahoma (0.29×).

11,116 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.

Also a last name

As a last name, Stephany ranks #26,847 of 156,621, with 955 people. See Stephany as a last name

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