Stephen or Steven?

Boy Names
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Definitely [name]Stephen[/name].

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[name]How[/name] are you pronouncing the ‘[name]Stephen[/name]’ spelling? Would it be “STEE’ven” or “[name]STEF[/name]'en”?

23

GOOGLE translate does a nifty thing with this name. The first time you enter it you should spell [name]Stephen[/name] first then click the speaker icon it will pronounce it Steev-en. Delete then spell it [name]Steph[/name]-en, with that spelling with the hyphen in it it will pronounce it ‘[name]Stef[/name]-en’.

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Definitely [name]Stephen[/name]. The [name]Steven[/name] spelling screams 1950s to me.

25

[name]Stephen[/name]! For sure

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[name]Stephen[/name]! I am not a big believer in phonetics trumping all. A lot of classic English names aren’t phonetic: I rank [name]Stephen[/name] up there with [name]Thomas[/name], [name]John[/name], [name]Michael[/name], etc.