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Stephanie would have been my name if my mother had named me without my father's input. It was her favorite, but my father refused to consider it because he had a brother named Steven who died at age 10.

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I think I would have been a good Stephanie, and I really like the name. It's elegant and feminine and manages to have strong consonant sounds--ST, PH, N--but still sound light and pretty.

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Funnily enough, my brother's wife is Stephanie, so my mother did end up with a daughter named Stephanie after all.

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A name that I don't like at all.

While I don't hate it or even necessarily dislike it completely, it's not something I've ever considered using myself. It sounds kind of nasally, and it's overused among people of my generation.

It doesn't have the sounds I like. I generally don't care for more than one crash/hiss/splash sound (sh, ch, ck, st, ft, soft th, sometimes j, sometimes t and s) per name. I feel the same about Stefan and Cynthia. And, it was pretty common in my peer group (born in the early 70s in California) and I didn't like any of the girls named it.

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However, much like Tiffany and Cynthia and Stefan / Stephen etc, I think it's a really good dignified name and can't find a lot of fault with it outside my personal taste and experience. I think it's a far far better name than, say, Mattea or Hadley or Piper and if I were going to be born today I'd rather be named Stephanie than any name currently in the top 20 (counting the frequency of Emily and Sophia against them).

This message was edited 7/24/2012, 2:23 PM

Stephanie isn't a bad name. Yes, it's dated, but I think what turns me off is when people use the nn Steph or Stef. That's just not attractive to me. Also, once I heard a girl teased (in a good-natured way) and called Stepfunny. REALLY not attractive! Then there's also Steponme (how would you even spell that?). People think they're so clever. ;-)

I have always liked it. It's pretty and feminine without being frilly, and I don't really think it's very dated, since I've known Stephanies from just about every age group.

I think Stephanie is a great name! I'm not biased as I know absolutely no one with the name. I think it's great to call a little girl because they can find their own identity by creating their own unique nickname, whether it be Steph or Annie etc...

It's my younger sister's name, so I am biased certainly, but I always liked it. She goes by Stephie (even now, as a grown up), Steffie in Ducth spelling. Maybe because it reminds me of my sister, but to me it's spunky and dramatic and fun.

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What I really dislike though is that in Ducth one can pronounce it STEH-fuh-nee (like in English) or STAY-fah-nee (which I hate).

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On a completely different note, I just realized both me and my sister's name were #7 in the US for our birthyears, with about a 1.2 percent usage.

This message was edited 7/24/2012, 10:27 AM

I really don't care for the name Stephanie, though I do like Stephen for a boy. The reason I don't like Stephanie is because of the way it sounds and I don't like the spelling either, so overall I just don't like the name.

Its on my GP list.
Its my mom's name. I'm not a huge fan of it but I do like it. I wouldnt name a child this given I want to try to avoid same first names expect in the case of our top boy's name (David Ernest).

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It's ok, but I wouldn't use it. I feel it well become very dated.

Though I hate the male name Stephen or Steven, I've always like Stephanie. I must like those last two syllables, because they are the reason that I like Tiffany and Melanie, also. As to actually using a name, though, I'd opt for Melanie over either Stephanie or Tiffany, because Melanie was never as popular.