Baby name
STABLE
🇧🇷 🇲🇽 Estefani
/es · teh · FAH · nee/
Meaning
“Crown”
Brazilian and Latin American phonetic spelling of Stephanie, from Greek Stephanos meaning crown; popular across Brazil and Spanish-speaking countries as a simplified written form.
Nicknames
fani · ste
Vibe
elegant
How it ages.
The spelling shows its era; Stephanie ages better than its phonetic variants.
The cultural moment.
Common across Brazil and Mexico in the late 1990s and 2000s; part of the wider Stephanie wave.