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Stefanie

Gender
Girl
Origin
French
US rank, 2025
#8,360 for girls

Stefanie is a girls' name of French origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).

What does Stefanie mean?

French

A female given name from French, a less common spelling of Stephanie, from the French Stéphanie, feminine form of Stephen.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Stefanie a girl's or a boy's name?

Stefanie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Stefanie in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 43 girls.

Half of all the girls named Stefanie in the UK since 1996 were born between 1998 and 2010. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 43 in 19962023
Stefanie in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20236#3,766
20225#4,168
20214#4,864
20205#4,110
20195#4,214
20186#3,702
20170–
20167#3,389
20150–
20148#3,031
20135#4,267
201210#2,666
20114#4,980
20107#3,308
20097#3,201
20084#4,742
20076#3,396
200614#1,764
200511#2,061
20049#2,226
20035#3,233
200210#1,874
20018#2,150
200017#1,230
199920#1,103
199826#922
199721#1,053
199643#622

How popular is Stefanie in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,360among girls
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 130,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 44% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Stefanie, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,646th. Its busiest year was 1983, with 2,667 girls. It first appears in the records in 1911.

2025 had fewer girls named Stefanie than any year since 1940.

Half of all the girls named Stefanie in the US since 1880 were born between 1974 and 1988, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 690 girls in the US were given Stefanie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #460, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.

1911Busiest: 2,667 in 19832025
Stefanie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202512#8,360
202424#5,297
202318#6,404
202226#5,025
202125#5,087
202028#4,646
201937#3,922
201831#4,457
201738#3,918
201647#3,379
201549#3,299
201447#3,367
201353#3,075
201260#2,865
201178#2,369
201084#2,274
2009108#1,934
2008117#1,834
2007108#1,908
2006147#1,495
2005157#1,374
2004188#1,190
2003202#1,091
2002196#1,083
2001251#902
2000249#884
1999276#792
1998314#704
1997328#666
1996381#601
1995403#570
1994498#498
1993589#426
1992772#339
1991826#324
1990957#289
19891,002#268
19881,156#228
19871,259#210
19861,389#190
19851,463#185
19842,127#138
19832,667#105
19821,951#151
19811,486#185
19801,333#196
1979706#332
1978764#302
1977928#270
1976746#308
1975717#319
1974959#262
1973931#268
1972972#271
1971921#298
19701,069#276
1969662#352
1968561#388
1967819#302
1966547#389
1965331#525
1964274#605
1963199#725
1962165#814
1961110#1,044
1960100#1,072
195971#1,272
195856#1,416
195768#1,273
195674#1,209
195574#1,156
195465#1,228
195364#1,206
195271#1,118
195152#1,291
195055#1,240
194944#1,392
194845#1,369
194732#1,696
194646#1,275
194524#1,698
194421#1,866
194319#1,993
194220#1,916
194114#2,271
194010#2,736
19399#2,920
19387#3,448
19370–
19366#3,699
19350–
19340–
19336#3,751
19320–
19310–
19300–
19299#3,135
19280–
19270–
19260–
19250–
192413#2,660
19238#3,640
192210#3,150
192114#2,509
19208#3,596
191912#2,639
19188#3,511
191720#1,773
191610#2,832
191514#2,142
191410#2,264
19135#3,185
19126#2,632
19116#2,191

Names like Stefanie

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Stefanie

Names related to Stefanie

More French names

Every French name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Stefanie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/stefanie, updated 20 October 2026.