Stefan
About 21,237 American babies have been named Stefan since 1910, most of them around 1991. In 2025 it ranked 1,021st. About 20,000 Stefans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Stefan boys named Stefan
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 21,237
- Estimated living today
- 20,000
- Median age today
- 33
- Peak year
- 1991
- Best rank
- 339th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,021st
- First recorded
- 1910
- Girls / boys
- 42 / 21,195
How old the living Stefans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 21,237 babies given the name since 1910, about 20,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 4,400 of them are children and 690 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From Ancient Greek στεφανίζω (“to crown”) & Ancient Greek στέφανος (“that which surrounds, crown, wreath”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Stefans
- Stefan Zweig (1881–1942)Austrian writer
- Stefan Banach (1892–1945)Polish mathematician
- Stefan Löfven (born 1957)Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden between 2014–2021
- Stefán Karl Stefánsson (1975–2018)Icelandic actor
- Stefan George (1868–1933)German poet, editor, and translator
- Stefan Edberg (born 1966)Swedish tennis player
- Stefan de Vrij (born 1992)Dutch association football player
- Stefan Dušan (1308–1355)emperor of Serbia 1331–1355
People named Stefan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Stefan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Stefan is most concentrated in Florida (2.0×), Washington (1.8×), Colorado (1.7×), New York (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1991
The most popular boys’ names the year Stefan peaked:
Stefan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria boys | Stefan | 29,891 | 3rd |
| Poland boys | Stefan | 6,519 birth registrations | 64th |
| England and Wales boys | Stefan | 3,782 | 155th |
| France boys | Stefan +1 spelling | 3,120 | 192nd |
| Norway boys | Stefan | 2,351 | 107th |
| Italy boys | Stefan | 1,774 | — |
| Switzerland boys | Stefan | 1,558 | 34th |
| Scotland boys | Stefan | 655 | 110th |
| Belgium boys | Stefan | 580 | 234th |
| Ireland boys | Stefan | 479 | 156th |
| Denmark boys | Stefan | 389 | 36th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Stefan | 152 | 143rd |
| Sweden boys | Stefan | 63 | 97th |
| New Zealand boys | Stefan | 52 | 99th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Stefan: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Stefan | 1,287 | 0.103% | 31st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Stefan | 215 | 0.049% | 95th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Stefan | 56 | 0.086% | 47th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Stefan is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.14% of children were given it – 158 of them.
Stefan: rank by region
In 2025, Stefan was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Stefan | 498 | 11 |
In 2025, Stefan was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Stefan | 55 | 37 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Stefan | 85 | 11 |
| Lubelskie | Stefan | 54 | 19 |
| Lubuskie | Stefan | 86 | 5 |
| Łódzkie | Stefan | 64 | 20 |
| Małopolskie | Stefan | 64 | 37 |
| Mazowieckie | Stefan | 37 | 136 |
| Opolskie | Stefan | 126 | 2 |
| Podkarpackie | Stefan | 73 | 15 |
| Podlaskie | Stefan | 50 | 16 |
| Pomorskie | Stefan | 70 | 24 |
| Śląskie | Stefan | 91 | 19 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Stefan | 74 | 5 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Stefan | 53 | 16 |
| Wielkopolskie | Stefan | 44 | 62 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Stefan | 74 | 12 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Stefan appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (290th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Stefan by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 61 | 259th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Stefan among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Stefan | 20,376 | 24,147 |
| Finland boys | Stefan | 1,802 | 3,317 |
| the Netherlands girls | Stefan | — | 51 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Stefan lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 3,454 men called Stefan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castellón/Castelló | Stefan | 134 | 0.429 | 253 |
| Segovia | Stefan | 30 | 0.378 | 256 |
| Cuenca | Stefan | 36 | 0.356 | 289 |
| Lleida | Stefan | 81 | 0.344 | 317 |
| Teruel | Stefan | 23 | 0.332 | 302 |
| Guadalajara | Stefan | 48 | 0.330 | 257 |
Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Stefan against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.