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Stefanie

#8,362 in the US in 2025

Where Stefanie stands

United States register · 1880–2025

#8,362girls’ names · US 2025

Stefanie was the 8,362nd most registered girls' name in the United States in 2025, on 12 births.

peak 1983 · 2,667188019532025

Its moment was 1983, when 2,667 babies were given it. In 10 of the years between, the name fell under the 5-birth floor and the registrar published nothing — those years are the marks along the base of the chart, not gaps in the name's use.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

#8,362US rank, 2025 (girls)
12US births in 2025
#105its best US rank, in 1983
1983peak year — 2,667 births
37,144US births since 1911
74NZ births since 1983
24E&W births, 2019–2025
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How Stefanie's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Stefanie was under the floor in 10 years of its US record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 5 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Stefanie in the United States

188019001920194019601980200020200.080160
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Stefanie in the United States, 1880–2025

Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been falling — down 72% as a share of girls' births.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Stefanie in New Zealand

In New Zealand, Stefanie has been registered 74 times since 1983, peaking in 1984 with 12 births. It did not clear the DIA's 10-birth reporting floor in 2025.

1900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 10-BIRTH FLOOR0.03162
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 10-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Stefanie in New Zealand, 1900–2025

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Stefanie in England & Wales

In England and Wales, Stefanie was registered 24 times between 2019 and 2025, peaking in 2023 with 6 births. It did not clear the ONS reporting floor of 3 in 2025.

2020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 3-BIRTH FLOOR0.01.22.3
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 3-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Stefanie in England and Wales, 2019–2025

Seven years is a window, not a history. Unlike the American and New Zealand series this one cannot show you a name's arrival or its long decline — ONS publishes the full list only from 2019. England and Wales only: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not counted here.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
1920#3,5988
1930below floor<5
1940#2,73710
1950#1,24155
1960#1,073100
1970#2761,069
1980#1961,333
1990#289957
2000#885249
2010#2,27484
2020#4,64828

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Where in the United States

The states that registered Stefanie most often since 1911. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.

StateBirths
California4,542
New York3,736
Texas2,620
Illinois2,005
Pennsylvania1,931
Ohio1,726
New Jersey1,584
Michigan1,463
Florida1,251
Massachusetts923

Questions about Stefanie

How popular is the name Stefanie?

Stefanie ranked #8,362 for girls in the United States in 2025, on 12 births registered with the Social Security Administration.

When was Stefanie most popular?

Stefanie peaked in 1983, when 2,667 babies in the United States were given the name.

Is Stefanie rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all girls' births, Stefanie has been falling between 2016 and 2025 (-72%).

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 1983, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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