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Steffan

#9,590 in 2025Boys' name

Crown, through Stephanus

Steffan has been given to 1,405 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #9,590 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 73 recorded.

Babies named Steffan, 2025

1 in 414,000

Steffan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Steffan: meaning, origin, and history

Crown, through Stephanus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Steffan means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Steffan is used in Faroese and Welsh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stephen and Stephanus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,405 boys were recorded with the name Steffan between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 73 in 1994; its best national rank was #1,241 in 1987.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,983 in 2020 to #9,590 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,264 in 2015 to #9,590 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 Steffan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,590
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Steffan 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Steffan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Steffans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Steffan was born before 1990 — so the typical Steffan is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
32.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,405
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (456).

Is Steffan 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,607
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,326
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.0%
Peak was 1994 (73)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,241
1987

Spellings of Steffan

Steffan is not the most common spelling — Stephan is, with 43.2% against Steffan's 2.2%.

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 Steffan is used

Across 1910–2025, Steffan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 507,195 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Louisiana1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7Missouri1 in —
  8. 8New York1 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. Steffan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Steffan around the world

Where Steffan 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
    #1,406
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1983–1994
    #375
    in 1994
  • Ireland
    1996–1996
    #369
    in 1996
  • Norway
    1880–1996
    #429
    in 1996
  • Canada
    1993–2009
    #2,692
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1953–1996
    #540
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Steffan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,590
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,607
Best rank ever
#1,241
1987
Peak year
1994
73 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,405
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Steffan

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

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Sibling names for Steffan

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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