Meaning not yet researched.
Stefano: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 52 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,184 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,184 in 1993; #2,565 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Stefano in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,565 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #1,184.
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Stefano: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 52 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,184 in 1993 · most boys in one year: 90 (1993).
In 2025, 52 US boys were named Stefano, making it the 2,565th most common boys’ name of the year, down 254 places from #2,311 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 62 boys named Stefano in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,184, reached in 1993. That year also had the most boys given the name: 90. For comparison, it was #2,479 in 2015 and #3,639 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Stefano in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 7 babies. In all, 3,150 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 734 babies named Stefano.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 547 US boys were named Stefano; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,848 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Stefano ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #951 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 Estefano and Steffano 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Estefano (158), Steffano (20).
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 Stefano 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 15 | #951 | #864 |
| California | 6 | #2,430 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #2,529 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 52 | #2,565 |
| 2024 | — | — | 62 | #2,311 |
| 2023 | — | — | 69 | #2,123 |
| 2022 | — | — | 70 | #2,129 |
| 2021 | — | — | 48 | #2,688 |
| 2020 | — | — | 40 | #2,970 |
| 2019 | — | — | 48 | #2,688 |
| 2018 | — | — | 45 | #2,741 |
| 2017 | — | — | 52 | #2,486 |
| 2016 | — | — | 61 | #2,224 |
| 2015 | — | — | 51 | #2,479 |
| 2014 | — | — | 54 | #2,398 |
| 2013 | — | — | 61 | #2,178 |
| 2012 | — | — | 70 | #2,015 |
| 2011 | — | — | 65 | #2,075 |
| 2010 | — | — | 63 | #2,140 |
| 2009 | — | — | 57 | #2,315 |
| 2008 | — | — | 74 | #1,945 |
| 2007 | — | — | 58 | #2,277 |
| 2006 | — | — | 70 | #1,939 |
| 2005 | — | — | 83 | #1,645 |
| 2004 | — | — | 68 | #1,830 |
| 2003 | — | — | 66 | #1,814 |
| 2002 | — | — | 65 | #1,789 |
| 2001 | — | — | 78 | #1,563 |
| 2000 | — | — | 67 | #1,709 |
| 1999 | — | — | 77 | #1,488 |
| 1998 | — | — | 76 | #1,471 |
| 1997 | — | — | 61 | #1,655 |
| 1996 | — | — | 74 | #1,420 |
| 1995 | — | — | 68 | #1,455 |
| 1994 | — | — | 72 | #1,379 |
| 1993 | — | — | 90 | #1,184 |
| 1992 | — | — | 67 | #1,393 |
| 1991 | — | — | 88 | #1,191 |
| 1990 | — | — | 61 | #1,451 |
| 1989 | — | — | 57 | #1,473 |
| 1988 | — | — | 42 | #1,702 |
| 1987 | — | — | 43 | #1,632 |
| 1986 | — | — | 44 | #1,531 |
| 1985 | — | — | 56 | #1,289 |
| 1984 | — | — | 34 | #1,715 |
| 1983 | — | — | 40 | #1,531 |
| 1982 | — | — | 22 | #2,330 |
| 1981 | — | — | 22 | #2,325 |
| 1980 | — | — | 18 | #2,714 |
| 1979 | — | — | 21 | #2,364 |
| 1978 | — | — | 28 | #1,864 |
| 1977 | — | — | 19 | #2,446 |
| 1976 | — | — | 21 | #2,231 |
| 1975 | — | — | 27 | #1,825 |
| 1974 | — | — | 22 | #2,047 |
| 1973 | — | — | 20 | #2,113 |
| 1972 | — | — | 22 | #1,960 |
| 1971 | — | — | 18 | #2,270 |
| 1970 | — | — | 25 | #1,789 |
| 1969 | — | — | 25 | #1,674 |
| 1968 | — | — | 21 | #1,777 |
| 1967 | — | — | 18 | #1,896 |
| 1966 | — | — | 17 | #1,956 |
| 1965 | — | — | 12 | #2,455 |
| 1964 | — | — | 12 | #2,530 |
| 1963 | — | — | 20 | #1,834 |
| 1962 | — | — | 14 | #2,268 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,689 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,537 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,481 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,400 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,330 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,924 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,192 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,639 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,467 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,806 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #4,112 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,502 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,876 |
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).