Stephany

Where Stephany comes from

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

  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1910
    First appearance
    #2,140 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1987
    Stephany Skrba born
    Canadian basketball player
  3. 1990
    Peak, #442
    564 babies named Stephany — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1991
    Stephany Mayor born
    Mexican footballer
  5. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #983.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French, a less common spelling of Stephanie.
Namesakes
  • Stephany Mayor · Mexican footballer, born 1991
  • Stephany Skrba · Canadian basketball player, born 1987
  • Stephany Griffith-Jones · economist, born 1947
  • Stephany Folsom · screenwriter, born 1978
  • Stephany Zreik · Miss Earth Venezuela 2020, born 1995

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.