How Many People Are Named Stephani?

5,044

people named Stephani are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 67,760 people in the US has this name

Based on 5,305 babies named Stephani in Social Security records from 1940 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,699

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,080

See the top 100

Peak Year

1989

637 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: STEF-ə-nee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of STEPHANIE.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Stephani in English. Counting Stephani and these spellings together, about 725,994 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

ŠtefanijaŠtěpánkaStefanieStefanaStefaniStephaniaStephanieStephanyÉtiennetteKekepaniaStefániaStefanijaEstefânia

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Stephani in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Stephani alive today is about 40 years old, and 74% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 33 and 49 in 2025.

Under 30 913
18.1%
30 to 59 3,720
73.8%
60 and over 411
8.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Stephani first appears in the records in 1940 and was given most often in 1989, to 637 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.

Babies given the name each year, 1940 to 2024

🏆 Rank History

Stephani has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #391, in 1989.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#391 (1989)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#889 in the 1980s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Stephani alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Stephani were born in California than in any other state: about 729 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Stephani was given 3.1 times as often in New York, 2.1 times in California and 1.8 times in Texas.

California 729
New York 587
Texas 373
Michigan 136
Illinois 130
Ohio 86
Florida 84
Indiana 70
Washington 60
Pennsylvania 47
Wisconsin 29
Oregon 28
Oklahoma 26
New Jersey 25
Minnesota 22
Colorado 20
Missouri 16
North Carolina 15
Arizona 15
Iowa 10
Kansas 10
Louisiana 6
Massachusetts 5
Tennessee 5
Maryland 5
Utah 5
Arkansas 5
Alabama 5

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