# Steph (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/steph/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /stɛf/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 71 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 66 (93% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Female: shortened from Stephanie, from French Stéphanie. Male: shortened from Stephan.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 9 | 4,588 |
| 1960 | 11 | 4,143 |
| 1961 | 10 | 4,501 |
| 1962 | 6 | 6,473 |
| 1963 | 6 | 6,494 |
| 1964 | 9 | 4,959 |
| 1970 | 7 | 6,969 |
| 1971 | 8 | 6,541 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | 13,820 |

## People named Steph

- Steph Houghton, English association football player (born 1988)
- Stephanie Catley, Australian soccer player
- Steph Davis, American rock climber

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.