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Steffen

#13,629 in 2025Boys' name

Crown, through Stefan

Steffen has been given to 1,505 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #13,629 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 77 recorded.

Babies named Steffen, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Steffen: meaning, origin, and history

Crown, through Stefan

Danish

What Steffen means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Steffen is used in Danish, German and Norwegian Bokmål. Its origins include Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stefan, Stephen and Stephanus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Steffen is pronounced /ˈʃtɛfən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,505 boys were recorded with the name Steffen between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 77 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,272 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,658 in 2020 to #13,629 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,265 in 2015 to #13,629 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 Steffen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,629
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Steffen 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Steffen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Steffens were born

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

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,499
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Choose a decade

1990s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (458).

Is Steffen 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
+344
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,971
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,364
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.5%
Peak was 1991 (77)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,272
1991

Spellings of Steffen

Steffen is not the most common spelling — Steven is, with 59.2% against Steffen's 0.07%.

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 Steffen is used

Across 1910–2025, Steffen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 618,650 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Washington1 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. Steffen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Steffen around the world

Where Steffen 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
    1996–2000
    #2,142
    in 2000
  • France
    1979–2019
    #5,757
    in 2019
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2001
    #1,795
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    2005–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Steffen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,629
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,971
Best rank ever
#1,272
1991
Peak year
1991
77 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,505
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Steffen

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

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Sibling names for Steffen

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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