Steve
Steve is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 99 births. Its best rank was 41st, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 990.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 195911,067 births
- Best rank
- #41in 1959
- Since 1880
- 241,122people given the name
The story in the numbers
241,122 boys have been named Steve in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 11,067 births — 0.52% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 99 births in 2024, against 11,067 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 1960s alone account for 27%. It has spent 137 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 27 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Steve | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 618 | |
| 1890s | 752 | |
| 1900s | 1,307 | |
| 1910s | 9,638 | |
| 1920s | 11,354 | |
| 1930s | 8,572 | |
| 1940s | 36,283 | |
| 1950s | 64,215 | |
| 1960s | 65,620 | |
| 1970s | 16,654 | |
| 1980s | 10,391 | |
| 1990s | 7,655 | |
| 2000s | 5,097 | |
| 2010s | 2,348 | |
| 2020s | 618 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Steve was the 41st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Steve
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mikepeak 1960
- Lespeak 1961
- Douglaspeak 1957
- Stuartpeak 1960
- Delpeak 1958
- Dwightpeak 1953
- Erniepeak 1959
- Stanpeak 1959
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.