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Stellan

#1,140 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Stellan has been given to 1,600 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #1,140 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 186 recorded.

Babies named Stellan, 2025

1 in 17,800

Stellan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stellan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Stellan means

Stellan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Stellan is used in Swedish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,577 boys were recorded with the name Stellan between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 186 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,140 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,671 in 2020 to #1,140 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,702 in 2015 to #1,140 in 2025.

In the United States, 23 girls were recorded with the name Stellan between 2021 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2023; its best national rank was #14,715 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 Stellan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,800
186 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,180
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,140
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,355 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stellan 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,355 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stellan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stellans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stellan was born before 2019 — so the typical Stellan is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
46.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,577
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (740).

Is Stellan 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
+306
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+531
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+562
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.02×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (186)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,140
2025

Spellings of Stellan

Stellan is not the most common spelling — Stephan is, with 41.0% against Stellan's 2.3%.

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 Stellan is used

Across 2016–2025, Stellan was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 21,479 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 50,000).

216 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 6,250
  2. 2Washington1 in 8,333
  3. 3California1 in 12,500
  4. 4Colorado1 in 16,667
  5. 5New York1 in 20,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 25,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 33,333
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 33,333

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.

Stellan around the world

Where Stellan 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
    2008–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2013
    #687
    in 2013
  • France
    2002–2025
    #3,213
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2024
    #1,181
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Stellan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,140
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 531
Best rank ever
#1,140
2025
Peak year
2025
186 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,577
Count in 2025
186

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,715
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#14,715
2025
Peak year
2023
6 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Stellan

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

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Sibling names for Stellan

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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