Steel
- #3,128 for boys in 2025, 38 births
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 62 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 865since 1984
Steel over time
Rank among boys' names. Steel has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,128 | 38 |
| 2024 | #2,637 | 50 |
| 2023 | #3,474 | 33 |
| 2022 | #2,717 | 48 |
| 2021 | #2,253 | 62 |
| 2020 | #2,689 | 46 |
| 2019 | #3,201 | 36 |
| 2018 | #2,893 | 41 |
| 2017 | #2,493 | 51 |
| 2016 | #2,437 | 52 |
| 2015 | #3,365 | 33 |
| 2014 | #3,154 | 35 |
| 2013 | #3,964 | 25 |
| 2012 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2011 | #3,792 | 27 |
| 2010 | #4,366 | 22 |
| 2009 | #3,721 | 28 |
| 2008 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #5,303 | 16 |
| 2005 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #3,860 | 23 |
| 2003 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #5,588 | 12 |
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| 1998 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #6,618 | 8 |
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| 1995 | #5,501 | 10 |
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| 1993 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #5,382 | 9 |
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| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
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| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Steel! It came in at #6,315, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1989, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Steel is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,574 · 1 in 35,010
Best ever in a state: #673 in Utah, 2012.
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| Texas | #2,574 | 5 | 1 in 35,010 |
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See more about Steel
- 491 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #3,128)
- 439 spots since 2020 (#2,689 → #3,128)
- 237 spots since 2015 (#3,365 → #3,128)
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 2021 at #2,253 (62 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,217 boys born in 2021 were named Steel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 44,949 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.0% of all boys named Steel (355) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 10 | #6,315 (1984) | #6,793 |
| 1990s | 61 | #5,159 (1998) | #6,102 |
| 2000s | 162 | #3,721 (2009) | #5,238 |
| 2010s | 355 | #2,437 (2016) | #3,296 |
| 2020s | 277 | #2,253 (2021) | #2,816 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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