Meaning not yet researched.
Stefan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 219 in 2025. Its best rank was #339 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #339 in 1991; #1,023 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Stefan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,023 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #339.
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Stefan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 219 boys in 2025. Peak: #339 in 1991 · most boys in one year: 719 (1991).
In 2025, 219 US boys were named Stefan, making it the 1,023rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 27 places from #996 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 226 boys named Stefan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #339, reached in 1991. That year also had the most boys given the name: 719. For comparison, it was #800 in 2015 and #956 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Stefan in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 7 babies. In all, 21,237 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,405 babies named Stefan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,517 US boys were named Stefan; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 314. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,799 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Stefan ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #614 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Steven (1,297,590 babies since 1880), Stephen (867,669 babies since 1880), Steve (242,131 babies since 1880) and Esteban (35,623 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Steffon, Stefone and Stefane are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Steffon (877), Stefone (53), Stefane (32), Steffin (29), Stefaine (12), Stefin (11), Stefaun (7), Steffane (6), Stafan (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Stefan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 8 | #614 | #615 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #621 | — |
| New York | 24 | #636 | #545 |
| Ohio | 15 | #644 | #898 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #646 | #769 |
| Illinois | 14 | #673 | #435 |
| Virginia | 10 | #721 | #725 |
| Florida | 18 | #842 | #600 |
| Washington | 7 | #886 | #932 |
| Arizona | 6 | #918 | #776 |
| Michigan | 7 | #986 | #751 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,058 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,070 | #989 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,257 | #1,281 |
| California | 15 | #1,292 | #646 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,342 | #834 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,410 | #846 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 219 | #1,023 |
| 2024 | — | — | 226 | #996 |
| 2023 | — | — | 234 | #962 |
| 2022 | — | — | 239 | #951 |
| 2021 | — | — | 257 | #895 |
| 2020 | — | — | 257 | #881 |
| 2019 | — | — | 258 | #861 |
| 2018 | — | — | 249 | #881 |
| 2017 | — | — | 314 | #751 |
| 2016 | — | — | 264 | #854 |
| 2015 | — | — | 293 | #800 |
| 2014 | — | — | 260 | #855 |
| 2013 | — | — | 256 | #837 |
| 2012 | — | — | 218 | #935 |
| 2011 | — | — | 238 | #880 |
| 2010 | — | — | 240 | #876 |
| 2009 | — | — | 202 | #984 |
| 2008 | — | — | 194 | #1,007 |
| 2007 | — | — | 212 | #938 |
| 2006 | — | — | 223 | #887 |
| 2005 | — | — | 241 | #800 |
| 2004 | — | — | 227 | #797 |
| 2003 | — | — | 274 | #697 |
| 2002 | — | — | 283 | #662 |
| 2001 | — | — | 304 | #625 |
| 2000 | — | — | 360 | #571 |
| 1999 | — | — | 362 | #554 |
| 1998 | — | — | 390 | #530 |
| 1997 | — | — | 503 | #447 |
| 1996 | — | — | 454 | #480 |
| 1995 | — | — | 530 | #429 |
| 1994 | — | — | 588 | #396 |
| 1993 | — | — | 601 | #383 |
| 1992 | — | — | 614 | #376 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,934 | 719 | #339 |
| 1990 | — | — | 638 | #366 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,267 | 668 | #346 |
| 1988 | — | — | 607 | #346 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,126 | 514 | #377 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,423 | 491 | #375 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,625 | 423 | #414 |
| 1984 | — | — | 339 | #454 |
| 1983 | — | — | 256 | #522 |
| 1982 | — | — | 255 | #536 |
| 1981 | — | — | 228 | #566 |
| 1980 | — | — | 235 | #562 |
| 1979 | — | — | 204 | #600 |
| 1978 | — | — | 219 | #567 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,065 | 227 | #555 |
| 1976 | — | — | 208 | #561 |
| 1975 | — | — | 220 | #543 |
| 1974 | — | — | 220 | #542 |
| 1973 | — | — | 252 | #490 |
| 1972 | — | — | 257 | #490 |
| 1971 | — | — | 257 | #510 |
| 1970 | — | — | 323 | #455 |
| 1969 | — | — | 217 | #533 |
| 1968 | — | — | 165 | #593 |
| 1967 | — | — | 178 | #563 |
| 1966 | — | — | 141 | #625 |
| 1965 | — | — | 155 | #616 |
| 1964 | — | — | 137 | #662 |
| 1963 | — | — | 183 | #584 |
| 1962 | — | — | 178 | #585 |
| 1961 | — | — | 154 | #634 |
| 1960 | — | — | 134 | #679 |
| 1959 | — | — | 94 | #793 |
| 1958 | — | — | 57 | #1,015 |
| 1957 | — | — | 63 | #964 |
| 1956 | — | — | 86 | #807 |
| 1955 | — | — | 57 | #1,001 |
| 1954 | — | — | 62 | #945 |
| 1953 | — | — | 59 | #938 |
| 1952 | — | — | 60 | #925 |
| 1951 | — | — | 60 | #913 |
| 1950 | — | — | 53 | #956 |
| 1949 | — | — | 53 | #957 |
| 1948 | — | — | 40 | #1,143 |
| 1947 | — | — | 41 | #1,146 |
| 1946 | — | — | 23 | #1,502 |
| 1945 | — | — | 21 | #1,488 |
| 1944 | — | — | 28 | #1,281 |
| 1943 | — | — | 18 | #1,759 |
| 1942 | — | — | 22 | #1,529 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,628 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #3,100 |
| 1939 | — | — | 16 | #1,786 |
| 1938 | — | — | 15 | #1,889 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,487 |
| 1936 | — | — | 12 | #2,165 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,689 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,634 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,247 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,364 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,222 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #4,097 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,415 |
| 1926 | — | — | 14 | #2,288 |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,368 |
| 1924 | — | — | 12 | #2,617 |
| 1923 | — | — | 9 | #3,146 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,498 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,965 |
| 1920 | — | — | 20 | #1,813 |
| 1919 | — | — | 12 | #2,495 |
| 1918 | — | — | 22 | #1,644 |
| 1917 | — | — | 20 | #1,685 |
| 1916 | — | — | 13 | #2,245 |
| 1915 | — | — | 12 | #2,291 |
| 1914 | — | — | 8 | #2,620 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #2,071 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,241 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,967 |
| 1910 | — | — | 7 | #1,406 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).