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Stephani

Girls' name

Variant of Stephanie

Stephani has been given to 5,305 babies in the U.S. since 1940. 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 637 recorded.

Babies named Stephani, 2024

1 in 557,000

Stephani over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stephani: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Stephanie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Stephani means

Stephani is a variant of Stephanie.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Stephani is used in English (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈstɛf.ə.ni/ for Stephani.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Stephani → Stephanie → Stephen. The family’s meaning is “crown, wreath”, recorded in English with the source elements stéphanos.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Two main origins: * Borrowed from German Stephani, a Latinized patronymic surname from the personal name Stephanus. * Variant spelling of Italian Stefani.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Stephani (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Stephani is used in English.

Stephani comes through German Stephani and Italian Stefani.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stephanie and Stefani.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,305 girls were recorded with the name Stephani between 1940 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 637 in 1989; its best national rank was #391 in 1989.

How common is Stephani?

Stephani had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stephani 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stephani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stephanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stephani was born before 1987 — so the typical Stephani is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
34.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,237
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 34.3% of all recorded uses (1,819).

Is Stephani 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 1989 (637)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#391
1989

Spellings of Stephani

Stephani is not the most common spelling — Stephanie is, with 93.2% against Stephani's 0.66%.

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 Stephani is used

Across 1910–2025, Stephani was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 49,534 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2New York1 in 20,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 50,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 50,000
  8. 8Oregon1 in 50,000

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. Stephani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Stephani around the world

Where Stephani 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
    1997–1997
    #3,824
    in 1997
  • Canada
    1991–1996
    #2,558
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1953–2004
    #700
    in 2004

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

Stephani in other languages

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

StefaniStephanaStephaniaStephanieStephi

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

Stephani 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
#391
1989
Peak year
1989
637 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
5,305
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Stephani

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

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Names with a curve like Stephani

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

KristanTawnyVenessaCharissaFelishaKandaceAndrewTabethaKandiceSamathaDannielleLeighann

Sibling names for Stephani

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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