Given name
Steffie
“crowned in victory”
In English use, Steffie is a diminutive of Stephanie. In Greek use, Stephanie carries the interpretation “crowned in victory.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Steffie is a diminutive of Stephanie. In Greek use, Stephanie carries the interpretation “crowned in victory.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Steffie is a diminutive of Stephanie. Stephanie comes from French.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Steffie is a diminutive of Stephanie.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1904. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Steffie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 495
- 0 boys · 495 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 48 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1988. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 48 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 169 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Steffie’s family of names
In English usage, Steffie is a diminutive of Stephanie. In German usage, Steffie has a related form in Steffi.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Steffie
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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