Steele
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · #1,183 for boys in 2025, 174 births
Given to boys 95.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 174 births
- Debut · boys
- 11 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,053since 1920
Steele over time
Rank among boys' names. Steele has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 | #1,183 | 174 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #1,371 | 137 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #1,328 | 143 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #1,504 | 120 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #1,554 | 112 |
| 2020 | — | #1,556 | 106 | |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | #1,592 | 104 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #1,348 | 133 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #1,245 | 147 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #1,329 | 134 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #1,588 | 101 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #1,641 | 94 |
| 2013 | — | #1,675 | 89 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #1,668 | 92 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #1,947 | 71 |
| 2010 | — | #2,375 | 53 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,381 | 54 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,467 | 51 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,416 | 53 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,398 | 51 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #2,528 | 44 |
| 2004 | — | #2,788 | 37 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,006 | 57 | |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #2,249 | 46 |
| 2001 | — | #2,346 | 42 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,968 | 52 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,023 | 47 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,040 | 46 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,933 | 47 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,441 | 32 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,299 | 34 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,123 | 38 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,257 | 34 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,467 | 29 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,753 | 24 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,628 | 25 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,615 | 24 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,765 | 20 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,559 | 21 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,005 | 16 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,805 | 11 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,706 | 17 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,787 | 16 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,692 | 11 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,615 | 11 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,311 | 13 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,663 | 10 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | #2,969 | 8 | |
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,770 | 8 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,606 | 9 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,010 | 7 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,862 | 8 | |
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| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
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| 1935 | — | #2,951 | 7 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
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| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,602 | 11 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Steele! It came in at #2,602, and was given to 11 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1921–1922, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Steele is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arizona#708 · 1 in 5,705
- California#2,531 · 1 in 48,428
Best ever in a state: #339 in Nebraska, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | #708 | 7 | 1 in 5,705 |
| California | #2,531 | 5 | 1 in 48,428 |
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| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Arkansas | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Steele
- 188 spots since 2024 (#1,371 → #1,183)
- 373 spots since 2020 (#1,556 → #1,183)
- 405 spots since 2015 (#1,588 → #1,183)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 2025 at #1,183 (174 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,817 boys born in 2025 were named Steele (0.01%)
- 33.3% of all boys named Steele (1,018) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 46 | #2,602 (1920) | #3,725 |
| 1930s | 18 | #2,951 (1935) | #3,290 |
| 1940s | 34 | #2,606 (1949) | #3,083 |
| 1950s | 55 | #2,663 (1959) | #3,266 |
| 1960s | 58 | #2,311 (1968) | #3,400 |
| 1970s | 36 | #3,963 (1972) | #4,709 |
| 1980s | 153 | #2,559 (1987) | #3,302 |
| 1990s | 356 | #1,933 (1997) | #2,296 |
| 2000s | 487 | #1,968 (2000) | #2,355 |
| 2010s | 1,018 | #1,245 (2017) | #1,641 |
| 2020s | 792 | #1,183 (2025) | #1,416 |
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.
Steele in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 36,733 of them was named Steele, which outranked 83.6% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,348Taran55
- #2,348Zayn55
- #2,348Zyler55
- #2,381Steele54
- #2,381Aksel54
- #2,381Arnulfo54
- #2,381Ashwin54
- #2,401Abhiram53
- #2,401Ambrose53
- #2,401Anay53
Tied with 19 names at #2,381; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.