Stefanie

Where Stefanie comes from

The dictionaries list Stefanie as a given name — a female given name from French, a less common spelling of Stephanie, from the French Stéphanie, feminine form of Stephen — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1911
    First appearance
    #2,191 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1978
    Stefanie Sun born
    Singaporean singer
  3. 1983
    Peak, #105
    2,667 babies named Stefanie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1987
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #210.
  5. 1996
    Stefanie Scott born
    American actress and singer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French, a less common spelling of Stephanie, from the French Stéphanie, feminine form of Stephen.
Namesakes
  • Stefanie Scott · American actress and singer, born 1996
  • Stefanie Sun · Singaporean singer, born 1978
  • Stefanie Vögele · Swiss female tennis player, born 1990
  • Stefanie Powers · American actress, born 1942
  • Stefanie Zweig · German writer, 1932–2014

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.