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Stefani

#7,095 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Stephanie

Stefani has been given to 7,033 babies in the U.S. since 1939. In 2025 it ranked #7,095 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 282 recorded.

Babies named Stefani, 2025

1 in 207,000

Stefani over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stefani: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Stephanie

French

What Stefani means

Stefani is a form of Stephanie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Stefani → Stephanie → Stephen. The family’s meaning is “crown, wreath”, recorded in English with the source elements stéphanos.

Origin, language, and formation

Stefani is used in English. Its origins include French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stephanie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,033 girls were recorded with the name Stefani between 1939 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 282 in 1990; its best national rank was #737 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,883 in 2020 to #7,095 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,575 in 2015 to #7,095 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Stefani?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,095
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stefani sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stefani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stefanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stefani was born before 1988 — so the typical Stefani is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,941
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.0% of all recorded uses (1,898).

Is Stefani rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−965
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−212
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,520
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.52×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.7%
Peak was 1990 (282)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#737
1990

Spellings of Stefani

Stefani is not the most common spelling — Stefanie is, with 44.7% against Stefani's 8.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Stefani is used

Across 1910–2025, Stefani was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 33,965 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 14,286
  2. 2Oregon1 in 14,286
  3. 3Texas1 in 14,286
  4. 4Florida1 in 20,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 25,000
  6. 6Utah1 in 25,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 33,333
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Stefani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Stefani around the world

Where Stefani ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1993–1993
    #623
    in 1993
  • France
    1986–2020
    #5,414
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1991–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1950–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Stefani

People whose public names include Stefani, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Stefani in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Stefani. Linked forms have their own page here.

StefanyStefaniaStefanieSteffaniStephaniStephanyStephanieStefiEstefaníaStéphanieEstiennette

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Stefani by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,095
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 212
Best rank ever
#737
1990
Peak year
1990
282 that year
First recorded
1939
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,033
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Stefani

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

StephaniSteffaniStefanySterlingStephanyKeilaniStevieStefaniaKaylaniMeilaniKailaniJaylaniNoelaniKehlaniTiffaniMalaniLaylaniAilaniNalaniStephenShivaniMelaniKhalaniLailani

Names with a curve like Stefani

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Stefani, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SalinaChantelleGriseldaAleshaChantalMariselaDanyelleRikkiKiaLissetteNikoleKandace

Sibling names for Stefani

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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