first name
STEPHON
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 6,586 people named Stephon, 81% reported their origin as Black, 6.1% as White and 6% as two or more races. 99.1% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Stephon peaked in 1997, when 406 babies got the name.
At least 8,822 babies have been given the name since 1955. 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.
Stephon by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,248. The largest share of babies named Stephon, 39.6%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
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 Stephon is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Stephon has been most common in District of Columbia (7.6×), South Carolina (2.8×), and Maryland (2.5×), and least common in Kentucky (0.58×).
6,252 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 Stephon
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Stephon, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Stephon ranks #148,665 of 156,621, with 111 people. See Stephon as a last name
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