Stephanee
Feminine · “crown or wreath”
Stephanee is Stephanie with its last sound written as a double e, one of the many spellings American families have given the name. Underneath is the Greek stephanos, the crown of leaves given to a winner.
How old is the name Stephanee?
Stephanee first appears in US birth records in 1960 — 65 years ago. The typical Stephanee alive today was born around 1985, making them about 40 years old. About 500 people named Stephanee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Stephanee most popular?
Stephanee peaked in 1969, reaching #3619 nationally. See the whole 1969 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Greek stephanos to Stephanee
The story of Stephanee
Stephanie was common enough in American naming that its sound came to be written in more than a dozen ways: Stefanie, Stephany, Stephani, Stefani, Stephenie, Stephney, Stephanee and others. The record counts every spelling separately, so each variant looks rarer on paper than the name it belongs to; by ear, a Stephanee carries a name most Americans already know how to say. The double-e ending is simply another way to write the final sound and has no separate history behind it.
Meaning
crown or wreath, through Stephanie
Stephanie comes from Greek stephanos, a crown or wreath, through Latin Stephanus and French Stéphanie. Stephanee is an American spelling of the same name.
How the name formed
- Greek stephanos
- Stephanus
- Stéphanie
- Stephanie
- Stephanee
Related forms: Stéphanie · Stefanie · Estefanía · Stefania
Pronouncing Stephanee
STEF-uh-nee
Said exactly like Stephanie; the double e changes nothing in the sound.
Nicknames for Stephanee
Limited
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
- 1960
- Most girls named
- 198825 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3619reached in 1969
- Change vs 2002
- −16.7%5 in 2009, from 6
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.
Stephanee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Stéphanie in French — related form
- Stefanie in German — related form
- Estefanía in Spanish — related form
- Stefania in Italian — related form
Stephanees among us
people named Stephanee 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
Stephanee 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
- Sounds exactly like a name nearly everyone already knows how to say.
- Steph works as a short form for any spelling.
- The ee ending makes the final sound unmistakable in writing.
- Nearly everyone will write Stephanie, and the correction will be needed on forms for life.
- Some readers will take the double e for a typo; saying once that it is deliberate usually settles it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Stephanees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Stephanee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Stephanee in 2025?
- Stephanee is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Stephanee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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