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Stephon

About 8,822 American babies have been named Stephon since 1955, most of them around 1997. In 2025 it ranked 2,765th. About 8,400 Stephons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Stephon boys named Stephon

By the numbers

Total US births
8,822
Estimated living today
8,400
Median age today
29
Peak year
1997
Best rank
504th
Rank in 2025
2,765th
First recorded
1955
Girls / boys
14 / 8,808

How old the living Stephons are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 8,822 babies given the name since 1955, about 8,400 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 1,700 of them are children and 60 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 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

Variant of Stephen.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Stephons

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

Where Stephon is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Stephon is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (7.7×), South Carolina (2.8×), Maryland (2.5×), Florida (2.3×).

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

Names of 1997

The most popular boys’ names the year Stephon peaked:

All the names of 1997

Related names

Stephon 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.