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Stian

Boys' name

Wanderer

Stian has been given to 19 babies in the U.S. since 1998. 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 1998, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Stian, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stian: meaning, origin, and history

Wanderer

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Stian means

Stian means “wanderer”, associated with Stígandr.

Origin, language, and formation

Stian is used in Norwegian.

Stian comes through Old Norse Stígandr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stígandr.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 19 boys were recorded with the name Stian between 1998 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1998; its best national rank was #8,326 in 1998.

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 Stian?

Stian had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stian 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stians were born

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

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
19
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Stian 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (7)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#8,326
1998

Spellings of Stian

Stian is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 47.6% against Stian's <0.01%.

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.

Stian around the world

Where Stian 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
    2002–2025
    #5,364
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #370
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Norway. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Stian 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
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Best rank ever
#8,326
1998
Peak year
1998
7 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
19
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Stian

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

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Sibling names for Stian

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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