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Stephanos

#13,631 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Stephen

Stephanos has been given to 118 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #13,631 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Stephanos, 2025

1 in 663,000

Stephanos over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stephanos: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Stephen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Stephanos means

Stephanos is a form of Stephen.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Stephanos is used in Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek and Greek.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stephen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 118 boys were recorded with the name Stephanos between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2000; its best national rank was #5,083 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,782 in 2020 to #13,631 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,778 in 2015 to #13,631 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 Stephanos?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,631
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stephanos 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stephanos. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stephanoss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stephanos was born before 2000 — so the typical Stephanos is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
118
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Choose a decade

1990s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (44).

Is Stephanos 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
+151
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+147
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2000 (10)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,083
1985

Spellings of Stephanos

Stephanos is not the most common spelling — Stephan is, with 86.0% against Stephanos's 0.37%.

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.

Stephanos around the world

Where Stephanos 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
    1996–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1947–1995
    #533
    in 1995

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

Stephanos by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,631
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 151
Best rank ever
#5,083
1985
Peak year
2000
10 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
118
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Stephanos

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

StefanosStetsynStetsenStephaunSteliosStephanoSteadmanStephfonStevensonStephensonSteevenSterlynStevelandStefanieStevierayStepfonStepanStephensStylianosStevenraySterlinStellarStepehnSteaven

Sibling names for Stephanos

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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