Stephanie is the English and German feminine form of the Greek name Stephanos meaning ‘crown, wreath’.
Stephanie is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Stephanie isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Stephanie ranks 244. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 8 were named Stephanie. In total, there are currently 738,206 people – children, adults and seniors – named Stephanie living in the United States, which is approximately 0.22 % of the entire population.
Regardless of where you live in the US, chances are you know someone called Stephanie. Because: There are women and girls named Stephanie in every state in the USA. If this does not sound particularly spectacular to you, you should know that of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Stephanie is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 10 of the most popular female first names, for example in Arizona, where Stephanie ranks on place 9, making it one of the most common female first names in the entire state. The greatest chance of meeting Stephanie, however, is in Nevada, where one in 135 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 209, women and girls and in Mississippi, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 282 women and girls for their name before you once get Stephanie as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With nine letters, the name Stephanie is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Stephanie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Stephanie, you can simply say:
Sun
Tiger
Elephant
Pig
Hat
Apple
Nut
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Stephanie sounds like this:
