Stephanie
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Stephanie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name. In English, recorded as The feminine form of Stephen; a garland or crown.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania1 in 69as Ştefan
- BGBulgaria1 in 137as Стефан
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Stephanie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #17 (measured from records)
- 10 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 690 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
972,808 named Steven, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
10 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Stefan in DE Germany, RO Romania, BG Bulgaria and 2 more, Stephen in GB United Kingdom, NG Nigeria and Steven in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Feminine form of Stephen, from Greek Stephanos, “crown”; linked to St Stephen, feast day 26 Dec.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Stephanie is read(measured from records)
Stephanie 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.
- English72%
- French9.1%
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Stephanie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #7 | 972,808as Steven | 1 in 342 | 972K | Steven | 690 |
| DE Germany | #3 | ≈540,000 est. | ≈1 in 148 | listed | Stefan | 354 |
| NG Nigeria | #63 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 556 | — | Stephen | 155 |
| GB United Kingdom | #5 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 175 | 28K | Stephen | 438 |
| RO Romania | #144 | 309,900as Ştefan | 1 in 69 | 310K | Stefan | 103 |
| SE Sweden | #23 | 72,629as Stefan | 1 in 140 | 73K | Stefan | 188 |
| AT Austria | #3 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 147 | 31K | Stefan | 210 |
| BG Bulgaria | #8 | 50,950as Стефан | 1 in 137 | 51K | Stefan | 160 |
| SV El Salvador | #128 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Stephanie | 44 |
972,808 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; NSI — most common given names (population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Stephanie 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.
From French Stéphanie, vernacular form of Latin Stephania, a variant of Stephana, which was in use among early Christians as a feminine form of Stephanus (see Stephen). Variant: Steffany. Short form: Steff. Pet forms: Steffie, Steffy, Stevie.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Stephanie är en fransk femininform till Stephan (→ Stefan). Namnet har fått spridning i Sverige bl.a. genom prinsessan Stephanie av Monaco (f. 1965). Stefania är en från 1800-talet använd form i Sverige. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 26 december.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Princess Stéphanie of Belgiumb. 1864BEArchduchess of Austria (1864–1945)
- Stevie Nicksb. 1948USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and songwriter born 1948
- Cyndi Lauperb. 1953USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
- Stephanie Wilsonb. 1966USAmerican engineer and NASA astronaut
- Steffi Grafb. 1969DEnot in their usual nameGerman tennis player
- Stephanie McMahonb. 1976USAmerican professional wrestler and executive
- Stormy Danielsb. 1979USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress and director (born 1979)
- Stephanie Beatrizb. 1981ARArgentine-American actress
- Nikki Bellab. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler (born 1983)
- Stephanie Hsub. 1990USAmerican actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 110 sources across 58 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 657K | #57 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 5.1K | #606 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3.5K | #750 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 2.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 609 | #57 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 543 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 are other forms of the name Stephanie?
- In the etymology graph, Fanny, Stefanie and Stefania are forms of the same name in other languages; Steffi is a recorded short or pet form.
- Where does the name Stephanie come from?
- Feminine form of Stephen, from Greek Stephanos, “crown”; linked to St Stephen, feast day 26 Dec. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- What does the name Stephanie mean?
- In English, The feminine form of Stephen; a garland or crown
- Is Stephanie a male or female name?
- Stephanie is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Stephanie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 973 thousand people named Steven, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Stephanie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 972,808 people named Steven in 2020, about 1 in 342 residents.
- How common is Stephanie compared with other names?
- In the United States, Stephanie is the 7th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stephanieThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Stephanie” — the 7th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.