Steffen
#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1991 · 77 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,505since 1948
Steffen over time
Rank among boys' names. Steffen has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #6,726 | 12 |
| 2015 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #5,251 | 17 |
| 2009 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #3,528 | 27 |
| 2004 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #4,276 | 19 |
| 2002 | #4,044 | 20 |
| 2001 | #3,321 | 26 |
| 2000 | #3,640 | 22 |
| 1999 | #2,560 | 34 |
| 1998 | #3,017 | 26 |
| 1997 | #2,311 | 36 |
| 1996 | #1,842 | 49 |
| 1995 | #2,210 | 36 |
| 1994 | #1,664 | 54 |
| 1993 | #1,741 | 49 |
| 1992 | #1,884 | 43 |
| 1991 | #1,273 | 77 |
| 1990 | #1,547 | 54 |
| 1989 | #1,392 | 62 |
| 1988 | #1,373 | 57 |
| 1987 | #1,337 | 55 |
| 1986 | #1,345 | 53 |
| 1985 | #1,569 | 41 |
| 1984 | #1,796 | 31 |
| 1983 | #2,272 | 22 |
| 1982 | #2,426 | 20 |
| 1981 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #2,617 | 18 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #2,709 | 15 |
| 1975 | #2,751 | 14 |
| 1974 | #2,946 | 12 |
| 1973 | #2,216 | 18 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #2,203 | 18 |
| 1970 | #2,739 | 12 |
| 1969 | #2,308 | 14 |
| 1968 | #2,445 | 12 |
| 1967 | #1,853 | 18 |
| 1966 | #2,465 | 11 |
| 1965 | #2,270 | 13 |
| 1964 | #2,409 | 12 |
| 1963 | #2,539 | 11 |
| 1962 | #2,279 | 13 |
| 1961 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | #2,423 | 12 |
| 1959 | #3,290 | 7 |
| 1958 | #3,275 | 7 |
| 1957 | #2,375 | 12 |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,505 | 6 |
| 1954 | #3,452 | 6 |
| 1953 | #3,425 | 6 |
| 1952 | #2,251 | 12 |
| 1951 | #2,662 | 9 |
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| 1948 | #3,316 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Steffen! It came in at #3,316, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1950, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Steffen is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#756 · 1 in 9,931
Best ever in a state: #412 in Oklahoma, 1988.
Show every state
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| Michigan | #756 | 6 | 1 in 9,931 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Steffen
- 341 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #12,008)
- 6,557 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #12,008)
- 6,009 spots since 2015 (#5,999 → #12,008)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1991 at #1,273 (77 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 26,238 boys born in 1991 were named Steffen (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.4% of all boys named Steffen (458) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 6 | #3,316 (1948) | #3,316 |
| 1950s | 65 | #2,251 (1952) | #3,029 |
| 1960s | 125 | #1,853 (1967) | #2,389 |
| 1970s | 132 | #2,203 (1971) | #2,986 |
| 1980s | 374 | #1,337 (1987) | #1,903 |
| 1990s | 458 | #1,273 (1991) | #2,005 |
| 2000s | 179 | #3,321 (2001) | #5,038 |
| 2010s | 122 | #4,981 (2013) | #7,105 |
| 2020s | 44 | #5,451 (2020) | #9,676 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Steffen in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 38,659 of them was named Steffen, which outranked 82.5% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,817Tavion50
- #1,817Tavis50
- #1,817Zacharia50
- #1,842Steffen49
- #1,842Britt49
- #1,842Carmine49
- #1,842Charley49
- #1,872Baltazar48
- #1,872Barron48
- #1,872Chanse48
Tied with 29 names at #1,842; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.