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Stefania

#5,217 in 2025Girls' name

English equivalent of Stephanie

Stefania has been given to 2,653 babies in the U.S. since 1901. In 2025 it ranked #5,217 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Stefania, 2025

1 in 133,000

Stefania over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stefania: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Stephanie

Ancient Greek and Latin

What Stefania means

Stefania is a English equivalent of Stephanie.

Origin, language, and formation

Stefania is used in Faroese, Italian and Polish. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stephanie.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Stefania is pronounced /steˈfa.nja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,653 girls were recorded with the name Stefania between 1901 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 60 in 2004; its best national rank was #1,179 in 1917.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,833 in 2020 to #5,217 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,472 in 2015 to #5,217 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 Stefania?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,217
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stefania 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stefania. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stefanias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stefania was born before 1995 — so the typical Stefania is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
17.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,236
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 17.9% of all recorded uses (476).

Is Stefania 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
−1,764
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,384
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,745
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.54×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.7%
Peak was 2004 (60)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,179
1917

Spellings of Stefania

Stefania is not the most common spelling — Stefanie is, with 51.8% against Stefania's 3.7%.

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 Stefania is used

Across 1910–2025, Stefania was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 67,077 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 25,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 100,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in —

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. Stefania has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Stefania around the world

Where Stefania 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
    1996–2025
    #894
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • France
    1924–2025
    #1,980
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Stefania

People whose public names include Stefania, 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.

Stefania in other languages

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

StefanaStefaniStefanieStephanyStephaniaStephanieStefinaEstefaníaStefaniiaStefanijaStéphanieEstiennette

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

Stefania by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,217
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,384
Best rank ever
#1,179
1917
Peak year
2004
60 that year
First recorded
1901
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,653
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Stefania

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

StephaniaSterlingStepheniaStefanySteffanyStephineStefaniStephanyGardeniaStephaniJesseniaSteffanieStephenStephaneApoloniaSteffaniMilaniaYesseniaMelaniaStefannyStephaineSophroniaJeseniaParthenia

Names with a curve like Stefania

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

XeniaIndiraLeanaNubiaJulianAnastaciaMaryelizabethJamilahAllenaNohemiElisiaBrady

Sibling names for Stefania

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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