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Stefano

Stefano reached its high-water mark in 1993 at number 1,179, and has been recorded 3,150 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,539th. About 3,000 Stefanos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Stefano

By the numbers

Total US births
3,150
Estimated living today
3,000
Median age today
24
Peak year
1993
Best rank
1,179th
Rank in 2025
2,539th
First recorded
1914

How old the living Stefanos are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,150 babies given the name since 1914, about 3,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 1,000 of them are children and 30 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 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.

Notable Stefanos

People named Stefano with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Stefano is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Stefano is most concentrated in Florida (8.7×), New York (4.6×), New Jersey (2.4×), California (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1993

The most popular boys’ names the year Stefano peaked:

All the names of 1993

Stefano elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Italy boys Stefano 42,794
France boys Stefano +1 spelling 775 791st
Switzerland boys Stefano 370 203rd
England and Wales boys Stefano 296 1,077th
Belgium boys Stefano 196 452nd
Italy girls Stefano 175
Scotland boys Stefano 33 249th
Ireland boys Stefano 12 318th
Poland boys Stefano 6 birth registrations 497th

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.

Stefano: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Stefano 154 0.012% 260th
French boys Switzerland Stefano 70 0.016% 239th
Italian boys Switzerland Stefano 145 0.222% 13th
Romansh boys Switzerland Stefano 1 0.027% 14th

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, Stefano is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.22% of children were given it – 136 of them.

Stefano: rank by region

In 2014, Stefano was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Stefano 368 8

In 2023, Stefano was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Region Spelling Place Children
Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste Stefano 10 1

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – 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.

Stefano 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 Stefano 1,176 2,121
Finland boys Stefano 46 66
the Netherlands girls Stefano 7

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 Stefano lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 2,125 men called Stefano 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
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Stefano 238 0.446 251
Palmas, Las Stefano 210 0.361 301
Balears, Illes Stefano 159 0.255 360
Barcelona Stefano 473 0.162 465
Málaga Stefano 109 0.125 518
Valencia/València Stefano 139 0.103 670

Listed in 31 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 21 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.

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Stefano against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.