US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Stephen name popularity

Stephen has been given to 867,669 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 1952, when 23,082 babies got the name, and its best rank was #32 in 1949.

In 2025, 829 babies were named Stephen (#766 in the country), 96% below the peak. That is down 45% from 2015.

Almost every Stephen is a boy.

An estimated 698K people named Stephen are alive in the US today, with a median age of 58.

It was a top-100 name in 54 of the 146 years on record.

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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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