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Steffi

Girls' name

Crown, wreath, through Stephanie

Steffi has been given to 532 babies in the U.S. since 1942. 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 1989, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Steffi, 2019

1 in 694,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Steffi: meaning, origin, and history

Crown, wreath, through Stephanie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Steffi means

Steffi belongs to the name family reached through Steffi → Stephanie → Stephen. Its meaning is “crown, wreath”.

Origin, language, and formation

Steffi is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stephanie and Stephen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 532 girls were recorded with the name Steffi between 1942 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1989; its best national rank was #3,030 in 1988.

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 Steffi?

Steffi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Steffi 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Steffi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Steffis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Steffi was born before 1991 — so the typical Steffi is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
516
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Choose a decade

1990s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (184).

Is Steffi 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1989 (36)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,030
1988

Spellings of Steffi

Steffi is not the most common spelling — Stefani is, with 69.0% against Steffi's 5.2%.

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 Steffi is used

Across 1910–2025, Steffi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 444,130 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Steffi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Steffi around the world

Where Steffi 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
    1996–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • Scotland
    1990–2002
    #640
    in 2002
  • France
    1986–2017
    #7,386
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1988–1990
    #691
    in 1990

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

Steffi 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
#3,030
1988
Peak year
1989
36 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
532
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Steffi

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

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Sibling names for Steffi

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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