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Stephano

#7,606 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Stefano

Stephano has been given to 542 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #7,606 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Stephano, 2025

1 in 301,000

Stephano over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stephano: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Stefano

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Stephano means

Stephano is a variant of Stefano.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Stephano → Stefano → Stephanus. The family’s meaning is “crown”, recorded in Latin with the source elements Stéphanos.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stefano.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 542 boys were recorded with the name Stephano between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2000; its best national rank was #3,083 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,429 in 2020 to #7,606 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,266 in 2015 to #7,606 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 Stephano?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,606
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stephano 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stephano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stephanos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stephano was born before 2003 — so the typical Stephano is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
542
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (160).

Is Stephano 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
−1,463
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−177
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,340
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2000 (22)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,083
1984

Spellings of Stephano

Stephano is not the most common spelling — Stephen is, with 95.1% against Stephano's 0.06%.

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 Stephano is used

Across 1910–2025, Stephano was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 151,420 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000

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

Stephano around the world

Where Stephano 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
    #2,337
    in 1997
  • France
    1925–2017
    #5,956
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1995–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1968–1968
    #520
    in 1968

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Stephano by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,606
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 177
Best rank ever
#3,083
1984
Peak year
2000
22 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
542
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Stephano

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

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Sibling names for Stephano

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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