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Steffanie

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Steffanie has been given to 2,539 babies in the U.S. since 1950. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 108 recorded.

Babies named Steffanie, 2011

1 in 610,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Steffanie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Steffanie means

Steffanie is a given name.

The naming story behind Steffanie

Wikidata records Steffanie as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q63872967, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,539 girls were recorded with the name Steffanie between 1950 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 108 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,292 in 1973.

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.

How common is Steffanie?

Steffanie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Steffanie 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 2011 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 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Steffanie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Steffanies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Steffanie was born before 1983 — so the typical Steffanie is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,539
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (814).

Is Steffanie 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (108)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,292
1973

Spellings of Steffanie

Steffanie is not the most common spelling — Stephanie is, with 92.3% against Steffanie's 0.31%.

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 Steffanie is used

Across 1910–2025, Steffanie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 148,228 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Utah1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Colorado1 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. Steffanie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Steffanie around the world

Where Steffanie 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
    1997–2001
    #3,998
    in 2001
  • Scotland
    1990–1993
    #623
    in 1993
  • Canada
    1991–1995
    #2,576
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1985–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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

Notable people named Steffanie

People whose public names include Steffanie, 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.

Steffanie in other languages

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

SteffieStefanieSteffaniSteffanyStephanie

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

Steffanie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,292
1973
Peak year
1990
108 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
2,539
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Steffanie

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

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Names with a curve like Steffanie

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

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Sibling names for Steffanie

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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