Stephan
About 27,910 American babies have been named Stephan since 1895, most of them around 1989. In 2025 it ranked 1,837th. About 23,000 Stephans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Stephan boys named Stephan
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 27,910
- Estimated living today
- 23,000
- Median age today
- 42
- Peak year
- 1989
- Best rank
- 382nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,837th
- First recorded
- 1895
- Girls / boys
- 229 / 27,681
How old the living Stephans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 27,910 babies given the name since 1895, about 23,000 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 2,600 of them are children and 4,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 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
Ultimately 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 Stephans
- Stephan El Shaarawy (born 1992)Italian association football player
- Stephan Lichtsteiner (born 1984)Swiss footballer
- Stephan Andersen (born 1981)Danish footballer
- Stephan Endlicher (1804–1849)Austrian botanist, linguist and numismatist
- Stephan Eberharter (born 1969)Austrian alpine skier
- Stephan Schröck (born 1986)Filipino association football player
- Stephan Weil (born 1958)German politician (SPD), Minister President of Lower Saxony
- Stephan James (born 1993)Canadian film and television actor
People named Stephan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Stephan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Stephan is most concentrated in New York (1.6×), Florida (1.6×), Ohio (1.5×), Indiana (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1989
The most popular boys’ names the year Stephan peaked:
Stephan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Stephan +1 spelling | 13,830 | 97th |
| Austria boys | Stephan | 2,534 | 38th |
| Norway boys | Stephan | 473 | 226th |
| England and Wales boys | Stephan | 410 | 526th |
| Italy boys | Stephan | 257 | — |
| Ireland boys | Stephan | 97 | 196th |
| Belgium boys | Stephan | 73 | 485th |
| Scotland boys | Stephan | 66 | 214th |
| France girls | Stephan | 25 | 2,027th |
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.
Stephan: rank by region
In 2000, Stephan was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Stephan | 634 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.
Stephan by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 580th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Stephan 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 | Stephan | 7,447 | 10,074 |
| Finland boys | Stephan | 73 | 135 |
| the Netherlands girls | Stephan | — | 37 |
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 Stephan lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 331 men called Stephan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Stephan | 30 | 0.048 | 1,223 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Stephan | 25 | 0.047 | 1,690 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Stephan | 39 | 0.039 | 1,632 |
| Palmas, Las | Stephan | 19 | 0.033 | 2,246 |
| Málaga | Stephan | 26 | 0.030 | 1,614 |
| Tarragona | Stephan | 9 | 0.021 | 2,332 |
Listed in 14 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 38 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
Stephan 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.