Entry № 10010 · French origin

Stephanie Stephanie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ STEH-fah-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Crown (peaked #6 in 1986; Princess Stéphanie of Monaco)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "crown (peaked #6 in 1986; princess stéphanie of monaco)".

Stephanie is the French feminine of Stephen — from the Greek stephanos (crown, garland). Stephanie Meyer (born 1973) — American author; the Twilight saga has sold over 160 million copies worldwide.

Crown (peaked #6 in 1986; Princess Stéphanie of Monaco) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Στεφανία
Transliteration
Stephanía
Pronunciation
/ ˈstɛf.ə.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Stephanie stands.

Stephanie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Stephanies before her.

Real people
Stephanie Meyer
American novelist.
born 1973
Stephanie Kwolek
American inventor of Kevlar.
1923 – 2014
Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
Monégasque princess.
born 1965
In fiction
Stephanie
Saturday Night Fever.
1977

Names connected to Stephanie.

The number behind Stephanie.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Stephanie reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.