Stefani

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Stefani is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 6th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: do gr. stéphanos ‘coroa, glória’; forma patronímica.

rarermore common
  • RORomania1 in 69◐
  • DEGermany1 in 74
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 80

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.0M ●

across 13 countries

#23 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
621 ●

40M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 69 ◐

Romania

Spellings & scripts●

StevenLatin · English●12M records
СтепанCyrillic · Russian●997K records
סטפןHebrew · Hebrew●13K records
ΣτεφανοςGreek · Greek●3.7K records
ᲡტეფანეGeorgian · Georgian●1.6K records
สตีเฟ่นThai · Thai●777 records
스티븐Hangul · Korean●13 records
স্টিভেনBengali · Bangla●2 records
ስቲቨንEthiopic · Amharic●0 records
ՍթիվենArmenian · Armenian●0 records

14 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Stefan in DE Germany, RO Romania, PL Poland and 5 more, Stephen in GB United Kingdom, AU Australia, PH Philippines and 3 more, Steven in US United States, CA Canada, IT Italy and Степан in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Portuguese

do gr. stéphanos ‘coroa, glória’; forma patronímica

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Stefani is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#62,606,8192.1M rec.—12Stephen334
DE Germany#41,638,2751.5M rec.—2Stefan334
AU Australia#51,317,224949K rec.—106Stephen326
UA Ukraine#68977,649996K rec.—listedСтепан75
US United States#8971,97028M rec.1 in 342972KSteven621
RU Russia#97971,485431K rec.—#47Степан163
CA Canada#6843,178764K rec.—25Steven274
RO Romania#10309,900△6.9K rec.1 in 69310KStefan111
FR France#4308,5402M rec.1 in 220309KStephane403
AT Austria#3205,32053K rec.—31KStefan201
PH Philippines#93169,639129K rec.——Stephen148
IT Italy#44150,967161K rec.—15Steven126

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese460K74%
  • English74K12%
  • Spanish55K9%
  • German5.4K1%
  • Indonesian3.7K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese460,33674%
English73,78412%
Spanish54,5649%
German5,3981%
Indonesian3,6631%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Stefani is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name103K records spelled Stefani13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Stéfani, Stefáni, Stefañi, Stèfànï, Ştefani

  • French given name11K records spelled Stefani7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Stéfani, Stefaní, Stëfänï, Stėfaní, Stèfani

  • Italian given name7.0K records spelled Stefani7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Spain, Peru

    Also written Stefanì, Stefàni, Stefaní, Stëfänï, Stëfânï

  • Indonesian given name6.0K records spelled Stefani3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Peru, Philippines

    Also written 'Stefani, Stéfani

  • a separate given name4.0K records spelled Stefani5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Canada

    Also written Stefáni, Ştefăni, Stéfani, Ştefani

  • Polish given name1.6K records spelled Stefani2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Stéfani

  • Danish given name1.0K records spelled Stefani9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Norway, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Stéfani, Stefaní

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Stefani is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, a surname originating as a patronymic

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

010020030019401960198020002020282 · 1990

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Stefani in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1939–2025
Yearrecords
19395
19406
19417
19425
19437
19448
19456
194611
194711
194814
194912
195014
195114
195233
195317
195427
195522
195622
195720
195818
195924
196022
196127
196239
196337
196449
196556
196666
196769
196878
1969114
1970149
1971114
1972115
1973118
1974122
197597
197693
1977125
197898
1979102
1980122
1981138
1982143
1983171
1984171
1985159
1986192
1987213
1988248
1989260
1990282
1991242
1992213
1993238
1994168
1995169
1996163
1997156
1998141
1999126
2000104
2001108
2002120
200381
200483
200592
200692
200792
200873
200969
201053
201138
201243
201331
201436
201531
201624
201717
201816
201917
202017
202120
202218
202314
202420
202516

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 87 years between 1939–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1960198020002020Stefani Werremeier, b. 1968Stefani Miglioranzi, b. 1977Stefani Carter, b. 1978Stefani Morgan, b. 1985Lady Gaga, b. 1986Stefani Bismpikou, b. 1988Sofía Stefani Espinoza Álvarez, b. 1989Stefani Gudjenova, b. 1993Stefani Stoeva, b. 1995Stefani Kiryakova, b. 2001

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 76 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Stefani
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—38K#941
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202231K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—30K#812
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.9K#3,151
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.7K#16,781
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.7K#15,898
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.7K#16,752
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020621—
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021379—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021330#911
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024313#4,181

Reference works 7

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 523 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Stefani?
We estimate roughly 2.0 million people bear Stefani (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Stefani have the most bearers?
Stefani is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled stephen.
Where is Stefani most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stefani is densest in Romania — about 1 in 69 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Stefani compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Stefani is the 6th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Stefani a male or female name?
Stefani is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Stefani mean?
Recorded meaning: do gr. stéphanos ‘coroa, glória’; forma patronímica
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Stefani” — the 6th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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