Stefano

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Stefano: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Stefano: Recorded since 1984, its highest recorded position is #318, and it stood at #3,256 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
42years from first to last
#318highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#938
1997	#964
1998	#1263
1999	#1383
2000	#881
2001	#1467
2002	#1519
2003	#1326
2004	#1077
2005	#1851
2006	#2538
2007	#1506
2008	#1953
2009	#2837
2010	#2199
2011	#1909
2012	#1852
2013	#2055
2014	#2248
2015	#2707
2016	#1804
2017	#2052
2018	#2112
2019	#3937
2020	#2682
2021	#2493
2022	#3449
2023	#3523
2024	#2443
2025	#3256

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2025.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1984–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1984
First recorded at #318 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1984 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1984–1995
Highest recorded position: #318 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1984 (recorded 1984–1995).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #3256 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Stefano appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 30 ranked years and 296 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1984.

Stefano across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Stefano's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#938 (1996)	#881 (2000)	#3256 (2025)	30 of 30	296 (1996–2025)	18 (2000)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#318 (1984)	#318 (1984)	#334 (1995)	4 of 12	12 (1984–1995)	3 (1984)

Stefano by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Stefano in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	49	4 of 10	12
2000sbusiest	111	10 of 10	11
2010s	96	10 of 10	10
2020s	40	6 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Stefano appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1984 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #318 in Republic of Ireland in 1984.

Stefano's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#3256	6	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2443	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2493	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2112	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2052	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1804	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2055	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1852	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1909	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2199	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1953	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1506	14	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1851	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1077	18	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1326	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1519	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#881	18	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1383	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1263	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#964	15	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#938	15	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#334	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#342	3	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#339	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#318	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1984 and 2025, ranked in 34 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #318, first reached in 1984.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 18 births, registered in England and Wales in 2000.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 12 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Stefania · #495, 30y
Stefanie · #386, 33y
Stefanos · #1591, 26y
Steffan · #275, 49y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Najma · #318, 34y
Qasim · #318, 30y
Riccardo · #319, 31y
Elvis · #321, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Amiee · #318, 26y
Lowell · #318, 14y
Najma · #318, 34y
Alen · #317, 23y

Stefano was ranked #318 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1984. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Alexis#318
Antoin#318
Aodh#318
Aron#318

Stefano and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Stefano without appearing here.

Stefano moved ahead of

Brett
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #3523 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #4270.
Courtney
In 2023 they stood at #3449 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #4270.
Grant
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #4270.
Graeme
In 1999 they stood at #1383 and #1281 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #881 and #2501.

Moved ahead of Stefano

Rune
In 2018 they stood at #2112 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3937 and #2104.
Matheo
In 2021 they stood at #2493 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3449 and #2018.
Fredrik
In 2024 they stood at #2443 and #3254 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2025 that had become #3256 and #1897.
Filip
In 2004 they stood at #1077 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1851 and #615.

Moved the opposite way to Stefano

Albie
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Stefano went from #938 to #3256 while Albie went from #853 to #21.
Alfie
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Stefano went from #938 to #3256 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Stefano went from #938 to #3256 while Alfred went from #218 to #76.
Archie
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Stefano went from #938 to #3256 while Archie went from #192 to #11.

Moved the same way as Stefano

Aaron
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Stefano went from #938 to #3256 and Aaron from #33 to #180.
Adam
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Stefano went from #938 to #3256 and Adam from #16 to #26.
Alan
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Stefano went from #938 to #3256 and Alan from #163 to #539.
Alex
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Stefano went from #938 to #3256 and Alex from #43 to #207.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1984 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #318 in Republic of Ireland in 1984. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Stefano

Stefano at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Stefano across 2 official records

Stefano by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Stefano at a glance

Stefano across 2 official records

Stefano by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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