Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Stepehen

#23,808 most common boys' name of all time · #62,785 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1949–1986

Rank among boys
#23,808
Rank overall
#62,785 of 105,966
First appeared
1949
Years on the list
5 of 146
All-time
26
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1949 #3,686
Best rank
#3,686 1949
Girls Boys peak 6/yr
19601980

Stepehen first appears in 1949. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1986 — 5 5 #7,106
1984 — 5 5 #6,644
1981 — 5 5 #6,621
1976 — 5 5 #5,948
1949 — 6 6 #3,686