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How popular is “Stephan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Stephan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Stephan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Stephan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Stephan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Stephan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Stephan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Stephan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 -100%
1899 8 0.000023583 8 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 -100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 -100%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 -100%
1910 13 0.000022007 13 -100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 -100%
1912 20 0.000020242 20 -100%
1913 27 0.000023744 27 -100%
1914 32 0.000022593 32 -100%
1915 39 0.000021283 39 -100%
1916 35 0.000018093 35 -100%
1917 45 0.000022424 45 -100%
1918 37 0.000017042 37 -100%
1919 28 0.000013269 28 -100%
1920 26 0.000011491 26 -100%
1921 33 0.000014136 33 -100%
1922 24 0.000010484 24 -100%
1923 20 0.000008686 20 -100%
1924 12 0.000005039 12 -100%
1925 25 0.000010714 25 -100%
1926 21 0.000009147 21 -100%
1927 22 0.000009485 22 -100%
1928 18 0.000007961 18 -100%
1929 15 0.000006843 15 -100%
1930 18 0.000008096 18 -100%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 -100%
1932 25 0.000011841 25 -100%
1933 31 0.000015504 31 -100%
1934 17 0.000008186 17 -100%
1935 26 0.000012441 26 -100%
1936 23 0.000011071 23 -100%
1937 31 0.000014549 31 -100%
1938 45 0.000020338 45 -100%
1939 58 0.000026322 58 -100%
1940 67 0.000029096 67 -100%
1941 88 0.000036118 88 -100%
1942 139 0.000050882 139 -100%
1943 143 0.000050663 143 -100%
1944 137 0.000050928 137 -100%
1945 154 0.000058049 154 -100%
1946 208 0.000065095 208 -100%
1947 313 0.000086888 313 -100%
1948 309 0.0000895 309 -100%
1949 373 0.000107037 373 -100%
1950 412 0.000117601 412 -100%
1951 444 0.00012053 444 -100%
1952 455 0.0001198 455 -100%
1953 470 0.000121962 470 -100%
1954 525 0.000131886 525 -100%
1955 493 0.000122787 493 -100%
1956 477 0.000115691 5 472 -98%
1957 464 0.00011042 464 -100%
1958 381 0.000092165 381 -100%
1959 381 0.000091631 381 -100%
1960 418 0.00010063 418 -100%
1961 441 0.000106463 6 435 -97%
1962 530 0.000131339 6 524 -98%
1963 442 0.000111667 5 437 -98%
1964 449 0.000115495 5 444 -98%
1965 410 0.000113089 6 404 -97%
1966 401 0.000115374 5 396 -98%
1967 403 0.000118708 10 393 -95%
1968 390 0.000115439 7 383 -96%
1969 449 0.000129197 10 439 -96%
1970 422 0.00011701 11 411 -95%
1971 368 0.000107215 10 358 -95%
1972 371 0.00011804 18 353 -90%
1973 326 0.000108058 13 313 -92%
1974 327 0.000107566 14 313 -91%
1975 287 0.000095052 5 282 -97%
1976 286 0.000094256 286 -100%
1977 275 0.000086573 275 -100%
1978 299 0.000094207 5 294 -97%
1979 292 0.000087767 292 -100%
1980 303 0.000087966 303 -100%
1981 314 0.000090768 11 303 -93%
1982 350 0.000099773 5 345 -97%
1983 365 0.00010539 5 360 -97%
1984 409 0.000117234 8 401 -96%
1985 468 0.000131125 9 459 -96%
1986 484 0.000136067 8 476 -97%
1987 575 0.000159474 9 566 -97%
1988 541 0.000146412 9 532 -97%
1989 579 0.000150607 579 -100%
1990 575 0.000145478 5 570 -98%
1991 523 0.000134266 6 517 -98%
1992 513 0.000133549 5 508 -98%
1993 425 0.000112724 425 -100%
1994 479 0.000128845 479 -100%
1995 475 0.000129705 8 467 -97%
1996 371 0.000101722 371 -100%
1997 401 0.000110598 401 -100%
1998 310 0.00008428 310 -100%
1999 295 0.000079862 295 -100%
2000 242 0.000064023 242 -100%
2001 238 0.000063579 238 -100%
2002 228 0.00006099 228 -100%
2003 216 0.000056807 216 -100%
2004 205 0.000053652 205 -100%
2005 199 0.000051758 199 -100%
2006 193 0.000048784 193 -100%
2007 192 0.000048028 192 -100%
2008 161 0.00004096 161 -100%
2009 164 0.00004293 164 -100%
2010 162 0.000043834 162 -100%
2011 166 0.000045383 166 -100%
2012 142 0.000038826 142 -100%
2013 161 0.000044162 161 -100%
2014 160 0.000043169 160 -100%
2015 166 0.000044854 166 -100%
2016 175 0.000047701 175 -100%
2017 142 0.000039707 142 -100%
2018 143 0.000040672 143 -100%
2019 149 0.000042928 149 -100%
2020 153 0.0000458 153 -100%
2021 131 0.000038666 131 -100%
2022 116 0.000034288 116 -100%
2023 114 0.000034429 114 -100%
2024 96 0.000028842 96 -100%

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