Stephane
Feminine · “Crown”
Stephane is given to both — 1,128 girls and 702 boys since 1880. See Stephane as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Stephane loses an accent that in French marks the stressed syllable. The French form carries one on the first e, which tells a reader both how to say the vowel and where the weight falls; American records strip accents as a matter of course, and what arrives is a spelling with the information removed.
How old is the name Stephane?
Stephane first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Stephane alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 1,100 people named Stephane are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Stephane most popular?
Stephane peaked in 1967, reaching #2272 nationally. See the whole 1967 chart.
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Where it comes from
From stephanos to Stephane
The story of Stephane
The Greek object was a circle of leaves. Olive at Olympia, wild celery at Nemea, pine at Isthmia, laurel at Delphi: each of the four great games gave a different plant, and the wreath was the entire prize, since these were amateur competitions in the sense that the winner's city did the paying afterwards. The word also covered the garlands worn at feasts and given to public benefactors. Every English translation of the name as crown imports a metal object with jewels in it that nobody in the ancient world would have recognized, and the actual thing was made of leaves and lasted a few days.
Meaning
Crown, wreath
Greek stephanos, a wreath or garland, from a verb meaning to encircle. The wreath in question was the one given to victorious athletes and to honored citizens, made of leaves rather than metal, and the shift in English to a jewelled crown is a later reading of the word.
How the name formed
- stephanos
- Stephane
Related forms: Stephane
Pronouncing Stephane
steh-FAHN
Two syllables with the stress at the back in French. English speakers reading it cold often produce STEF-uh-nee, treating it as a spelling of Stephanie, which is a different name and a different sound.
Nicknames for Stephane
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 198540 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2272reached in 1967
- Change vs 2009
- −14.3%6 in 2010, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Stephane in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Stephane in French — same name
Stephanes among us
people named Stephane are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Stephane sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It works for a child of either sex, which the record confirms.
- Steph is a short, plain, unisex everyday form.
- The meaning is concrete and can be given to a child in one word.
- The record carries it for boys as well as girls, so it signals nothing on a form.
- Without the accent, English readers produce a different name entirely.
- In France it is a man's name, which travelers will notice.
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- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Stephane are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Stephane in 2025?
- Stephane is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Stephane will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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