Meaning not yet researched.
Steffen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,278 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,278 in 1991; #13,633 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Steffen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,633 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #1,278.
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Steffen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,278 in 1991 · most boys in one year: 77 (1991).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Steffen, making it the 13,633rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 345 places from #13,978 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 5 boys named Steffen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,278, reached in 1991. That year also had the most boys given the name: 77. For comparison, it was #6,269 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Steffen in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 6 babies. In all, 1,505 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 458 babies named Steffen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 81 US boys were named Steffen; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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).
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.
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 Steffen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 5 | #13,633 |
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #13,978 |
| 2023 | — | — | 5 | #13,915 |
| 2021 | — | — | 13 | #6,627 |
| 2020 | — | — | 16 | #5,662 |
| 2019 | — | — | 13 | #6,728 |
| 2018 | — | — | 5 | #13,827 |
| 2017 | — | — | 7 | #10,617 |
| 2016 | — | — | 12 | #7,088 |
| 2015 | — | — | 14 | #6,269 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #6,996 |
| 2013 | — | — | 18 | #5,144 |
| 2012 | — | — | 12 | #6,980 |
| 2011 | — | — | 12 | #6,943 |
| 2010 | — | — | 17 | #5,441 |
| 2009 | — | — | 14 | #6,384 |
| 2008 | — | — | 15 | #6,027 |
| 2007 | — | — | 14 | #6,217 |
| 2006 | — | — | 9 | #8,629 |
| 2005 | — | — | 27 | #3,604 |
| 2004 | — | — | 13 | #6,088 |
| 2003 | — | — | 19 | #4,396 |
| 2002 | — | — | 20 | #4,168 |
| 2001 | — | — | 26 | #3,396 |
| 2000 | — | — | 22 | #3,742 |
| 1999 | — | — | 34 | #2,602 |
| 1998 | — | — | 26 | #3,078 |
| 1997 | — | — | 36 | #2,340 |
| 1996 | — | — | 49 | #1,869 |
| 1995 | — | — | 36 | #2,248 |
| 1994 | — | — | 54 | #1,687 |
| 1993 | — | — | 49 | #1,767 |
| 1992 | — | — | 43 | #1,910 |
| 1991 | — | — | 77 | #1,278 |
| 1990 | — | — | 54 | #1,560 |
| 1989 | — | — | 62 | #1,396 |
| 1988 | — | — | 57 | #1,391 |
| 1987 | — | — | 55 | #1,360 |
| 1986 | — | — | 53 | #1,356 |
| 1985 | — | — | 41 | #1,591 |
| 1984 | — | — | 31 | #1,836 |
| 1983 | — | — | 22 | #2,331 |
| 1982 | — | — | 20 | #2,507 |
| 1981 | — | — | 15 | #3,009 |
| 1980 | — | — | 18 | #2,715 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,293 |
| 1978 | — | — | 15 | #2,911 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,181 |
| 1976 | — | — | 15 | #2,806 |
| 1975 | — | — | 14 | #2,886 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #3,103 |
| 1973 | — | — | 18 | #2,306 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,923 |
| 1971 | — | — | 18 | #2,271 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,873 |
| 1969 | — | — | 14 | #2,401 |
| 1968 | — | — | 12 | #2,555 |
| 1967 | — | — | 18 | #1,897 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,606 |
| 1965 | — | — | 13 | #2,356 |
| 1964 | — | — | 12 | #2,531 |
| 1963 | — | — | 11 | #2,654 |
| 1962 | — | — | 13 | #2,350 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #3,070 |
| 1960 | — | — | 12 | #2,526 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,577 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,527 |
| 1957 | — | — | 12 | #2,478 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,836 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,771 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,756 |
| 1952 | — | — | 12 | #2,362 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,829 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,622 |
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).