Stephanie

See also: Stéphanie

English

Alternative forms

• Stefani, Stefanie, Stefany, Stephany, Stephannie, Stephenie

Etymology

Borrowed from French Stéphanie. The standard English feminine form of Stephen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛfəni/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Stephanie

1. A female given name from French.
   • 1956, Grace Metalious, Peyton Place, UPNE, published 1999, →ISBN, Book Three,Chapter 13:

     Allison made a careful note of the address and within the hour she had met, decided she liked, and moved in with a girl of twenty who called herself Steve Wallace.
     "Don't call me Stephanie", Steve had said. "I don't know why it should, but being called Stephanie always makes me feel like something pale and dull out of Jane Austen."

   • 2025 March 28, “Utah becomes the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water”, in CNN‎^[1], sourced from Associated Press:

     The sponsor of the Utah legislation, Republican Rep. Stephanie Gricius, acknowledged fluoride has benefits, but said it was an issue of “individual choice” to not have it in the water.

Related terms

• (pet forms): Stef, Steff, Steffi, Steffie, Steffy, Steve, Stevie, Steph

Translations

female given name

• Albanian: Stefania f
• Cebuano: Stephanie
• Czech: Štěpánka (cs) f
• Danish: Stephanie f
• Esperanto: Stefano (eo)
• French: Stéphanie (fr) f
• German: Stephanie (de) f
• Greek: Στεφανία (el) f (Stefanía)
• Hawaiian: Kikepania
• Hungarian: Stefánia (hu)
• Icelandic: Stéfanía f
• Indonesian: Stefani
• Inuktitut: ᔅᑏᐸᓂ (stiipani)
• Italian: Stefania (it) f
• Lao: ສະເຕຟານີ (sa tē fā nī)
• Latin: Stephania f
• Latvian: Stefānija f
• Lithuanian: Stefanija (lt) f
• Malay: Stefani
• Maltese: Stefanija f
• Māori: Hētewhanī
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Stefanie f

  Nynorsk: Stefanie f

• Polish: Stefania (pl) f
• Portuguese: Estefânia (pt) f
• Romanian: Ștefania f
• Russian: Стефани (ru) f (Stefani)
• Samoan: Sitēfania
• Slovak: Štefánia f
• Spanish: Estefanía (es) f
• Swedish: Stephanie (sv) f
• Thai: สเตฟานี
• Tongan: Sitefanī
• Turkish: Stefanya
• Ukrainian: Стефані f (Stefani)
• Welsh: Steffani

Anagrams

• antisheep, haptenise, thiepanes

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• Stefy, Stephie (diminutive)

Etymology

Borrowed from English Stephanie, from French Stéphanie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /steˈpani/ [s̪t̪eˈpa.n̪ɪ]
• Hyphenation: Ste‧pha‧nie

Proper noun

Stephanie (Badlit spelling ᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜉᜈᜒ)

1. a female given name from English [in turn from French]

Danish

Proper noun

Stephanie

1. a female given name of French origin

German

Alternative forms

• Stefanie

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Stephanie

1. a female given name from French, masculine equivalent Stephan

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• Stefy, Stephie — diminutive

Etymology

Borrowed from English Stephanie, from French Stéphanie.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈstefani/ [ʔɪsˌt̪ɛː.fɐˈn̪ɪ]
  • IPA^(key): (with nativization) /ˈstepani/ [ʔɪsˌt̪ɛː.pɐˈn̪ɪ]
• Rhymes: -efani, (with nativization) -epani
• Syllabification: Ste‧pha‧nie

Proper noun

Stéphaníe (Baybayin spelling ᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜉᜈᜒ)

1. a female given name from English [in turn from French]