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Stefano

#2,565 in 2025Boys' name

Crown, through Stephanus

Stefano has been given to 3,150 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #2,565 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 90 recorded.

Babies named Stefano, 2025

1 in 63,800

Stefano over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stefano: meaning, origin, and history

Crown, through Stephanus

Ancient Greek

What Stefano means

Stefano belongs to the name family reached through Stefano → Stephanus. Its meaning is “crown”.

Origin, language, and formation

Stefano is used in Italian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Stefano comes through Latin Stephanus and Ancient Greek Στέφανος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stephanus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Stefano is pronounced /ˈstɛ.fa.no/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,150 boys were recorded with the name Stefano between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 90 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,180 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,969 in 2020 to #2,565 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,478 in 2015 to #2,565 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 Stefano?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 63,800
52 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 32,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,565
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
44,191 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stefano sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 44,191 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stefano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stefanos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stefano was born before 2000 — so the typical Stefano is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
23.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,122
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Choose a decade

1990s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (734).

Is Stefano 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
−254
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+404
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−87
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.02×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.8%
Peak was 1993 (90)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,180
1993

Spellings of Stefano

Stefano is not the most common spelling — Stefan is, with 63.2% against Stefano's 9.4%.

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 Stefano is used

Across 1910–2025, Stefano was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 54,604 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 12,500
  2. 2New York1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 50,000
  5. 5Connecticut1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Stefano has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Stefano around the world

Where Stefano 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
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–1993
    #334
    in 1993
  • Ireland
    1984–1995
    #334
    in 1995
  • France
    1925–2025
    #4,057
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,614
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1945–2013
    #389
    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 Stefano

People whose public names include Stefano, 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.

Stefano in other languages

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

SteveEsteveSteeveStefanStefenStepanStevanStevenEstebanEtienneSteffanSteffenStephanStephenEstefanoStefanosStephaneStephanoStefStenoEstevoIstvánStefánStepas

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

Stefano by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,565
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 404
Best rank ever
#1,180
1993
Peak year
1993
90 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,150
Count in 2025
52

Names similar to Stefano

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

StephanoStellanSteffenSteeleSteffanStevanStephonStefonSterlinGaetanoAdrianoStetsonStefenStevieStevensStephanStewardStevensonTorianoStewartCiprianoSilvanoMarianoJuliano

Names with a curve like Stefano

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

FabioArikRomelJobKamalSkyePaoloLeobardoJansenJairusDemetriMathieu

Sibling names for Stefano

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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