Stephenie

Where Stephenie comes from

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

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,979 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1973
    Stephenie Meyer born
    American author
  3. 1974
    Peak, #722
    199 babies named Stephenie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1978
    Stephenie LaGrossa born
    American television personality
  5. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,640.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Stephanie.
Namesakes
  • Stephenie Meyer · American author, born 1973
  • Stephenie LaGrossa · American television personality, born 1978
  • Stephenie Scialabba · American politician

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.