Steffi
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A crown or garland; feminine form of Stephen
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃtɛfɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Steffi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 3.5K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈49,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A crown or garland; feminine form of Stephen.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Steffi is read(measured from records)
Steffi is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German79%
) Steffie: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- English7.5%
A crown or garland; feminine form of Stephen.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Austrian beer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Steffi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #296 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 1 | Steffi | 181 |
| AT Austria | #501 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 10 | Steffi | 48 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 6 | Steffi | 48 |
| US United States | — | 865 | 1 in 385K | 863 | Steffi | 211 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Steffi | 42 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Steffi | 38 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Steffi | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Steffi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Pet form of sTEFANIE.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
German: pet form of STEPHANIE .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Stefanie Kieslerb. 1897USnot in their usual nameAustrian librarian and writer (1897-1963)
- Steffi Dunab. 1910HUHungarian-born actress (1910–1992)
- Steffi Kräkerb. 1960DEGerman artistic gymnast (born 1960)
- Steffi Walterb. 1962DEEast German luger (1962–2017)
- Steffi Kühnertb. 1963DEGerman actress and voice actress
- Steffi Lemkeb. 1968DEGerman politician
- Steffi Grafb. 1969DEGerman tennis player
- Steffi Neriusb. 1972DEGerman javelin thrower
- Steffi Jacobb. 1975DEskeleton racer
- Steffi Kriegersteinb. 1992DEGerman canoer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 863 | #13,827 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2023 | 10 | #1,838 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2011 | 6 | #1,301 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #13,827 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2023 | 1 | #3,534 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2025 | 1 | #2 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 1 | — |
| US United States | Baby Names 25,350 (Voight, 2004) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Steffi mean, and where does it come from?
- A crown or garland; feminine form of Stephen. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Steffi?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃtɛfɪ/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Steffi a male or female name?
- Steffi is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Steffi?
- In the etymology graph, Stephanie, Fanny and Stefania are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Stefanie.
- In which country does Steffi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 49 thousand people named Steffi in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled steffi.
- How common is the name Steffi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 865 people named Steffi in 2020, about 1 in 385 thousand residents.
- How common is Steffi compared with other names?
- In Germany, Steffi is the 296th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/steffiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Steffi” — the 296th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.