Steele
Steele is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 135 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1350.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2017147 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1920
- 3,000people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,877 boys have been named Steele in the United States since 1920, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 147 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2017, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 35%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 123 girls have also been given it, 4.1% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Steele | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 46 | |
| 1930s | 18 | |
| 1940s | 34 | |
| 1950s | 55 | |
| 1960s | 58 | |
| 1970s | 36 | |
| 1980s | 153 | |
| 1990s | 356 | |
| 2000s | 487 | |
| 2010s | 1,018 | |
| 2020s | 616 |
In 2017, its biggest year
Steele was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Steele
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hussainpeak 2024
- Kanepeak 2018
- Wolfgangpeak 2021
- Akrampeak 2023
- Ahronpeak 2023
- Umarpeak 2024
- Kyreepeak 2017
- Anaspeak 2016
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.