Stephens

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Stephens has been given to 391 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1953, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Stephens, 1992

1 in 480,000

Stephens over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stephens: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Stephens means

Stephens is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the given name Stephen + the patronymic suffix -s.

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Stephens is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Stephens is pronounced /ˈstiːvənz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 391 boys were recorded with the name Stephens between 1913 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1953; its best national rank was #1,670 in 1953.

How common is Stephens?

Stephens had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1992: 1 in 480,000; 8 of 3,839,369 births
Among boys only: 1 in 250,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1992: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 332,657 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Stephens 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 1992 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 332,657 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stephens. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stephenss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stephens was born before 1956 — so the typical Stephens is around 69 today.

Median birth year: 1956; About 69 years old
Biggest decade: 1950s; 25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 29.7%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 271; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1950s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (98).

Is Stephens 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1953 (22)
Years since peak: 72; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,670; 1953

Spellings of Stephens

Stephens is not the most common spelling — Stephen is, with 95.6% against Stephens's 0.04%.

Stephen95.6%864,739
Stephan3.1%27,681
Stephon0.97%8,808
Stevens0.14%1,306
Stephone0.08%723
Stephane0.08%702
Stephano0.06%542
Stephens0.04%391

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 Stephens is used

Across 1910–2025, Stephens was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 440,067 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Georgia1 in —

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

Stephens by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,670; 1953
Peak year: 1953; 22 that year
First recorded: 1913
Last recorded: 1992
All-time count: 391
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Stephens

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

Stevens Stefanos Stephano Stelios Sterlin Steevens Stephane Stephone Stepan Stephanos Steffan Stedman Steffen Stevenson Stellan Marvens Kervens Stetsyn Stefen Stephaun Stetsen Steaven Stella Steffon

Sibling names for Stephens

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Louann Nanci Randy Marita Jacalyn Oralia Luanne Kathlyn

For a brother

Jacky Ike Dannie Val Lindsey Jerrold Leigh Artis

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