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Stephana

Girls' name

English equivalent of Stephanie

Stephana has been given to 239 babies in the U.S. since 1909. 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 1915, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Stephana, 2006

1 in 791,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stephana: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Stephanie

Latin

What Stephana means

Stephana is a English equivalent of Stephanie.

Origin, language, and formation

Stephana is used in English and Latin. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stephanie.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Latin, Stephana is pronounced [ˈstɛ.pʰa.na].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 239 girls were recorded with the name Stephana between 1909 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1915; its best national rank was #2,510 in 1915.

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 Stephana?

Stephana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stephana 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 2006 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 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stephana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stephanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stephana was born before 1955 — so the typical Stephana is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
20.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
141
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1960s — 20.9% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Stephana 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 1915 (12)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,510
1915

Spellings of Stephana

Stephana is not the most common spelling — Stephanie is, with 95.5% against Stephana's 0.03%.

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.

Stephana around the world

Where Stephana 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.

  • France
    1924–1967
    #2,069
    in 1967

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Stephana 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
#2,510
1915
Peak year
1915
12 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
239
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Stephana

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

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Sibling names for Stephana

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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