Names/S

Stephon

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Stephon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 53 births. Its best rank was 504th, in 1997.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
530.00% of boys
Peak year
1997406 births
Best rank
#504in 1997
Since 1955
8,762people given the name
Babies named Stephon, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

8,762 boys have been named Stephon in the United States since 1955, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 406 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 37%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Stephon
1950s10
1960s718
1970s390
1980s1,283
1990s3,265
2000s1,716
2010s1,043
2020s337

In 1997, its biggest year

Stephon was the 504th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1997 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1997.

Names that rose and fell with Stephon

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.