Baby name
CLASSIC
🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇷 Stefanie
/STEF · ah · nee/
Meaning
“Crown”
Germanic form of Stephanie (Greek stephanos, 'crown'), bearing both classical virtue and modern feminization.
Nicknames
stef · steffi · fani
Vibe
eleganttimeless
How it ages.
Stefanie held top-20 status in German-speaking countries 1960-2000 and remains moderate; absent from top-100 in Anglophone nations.
The cultural moment.
Germany and Austria maintained Stefanie in top-50 through 2000s; English-speaking countries preferred Stephanie spelling.