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Steph

Steph reached its high-water mark in 1960 at number 3,920, and has been recorded 71 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2021. About 60 Stephs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 3 6 9 12 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Steph boys named Steph

By the numbers

Total US births
71
Estimated living today
60
Median age today
62
Peak year
1960
Best rank
3,920th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1959
Girls / boys
66 / 5

How old the living Stephs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 3 6 9 12 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 71 babies given the name since 1959, about 60 are alive — 88 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 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 Stephs

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

Names of 1960

The most popular girls’ names the year Steph peaked:

All the names of 1960

Related names

Steph 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.