Steven
Steven is ranked 269th among boys in 2024 (1,284 births). Its best rank was 10th, in 1955–1961.
- Rank in 2024
- #269down 18 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,2840.07% of boys
- Peak year
- 195638,410 births
- Best rank
- #10first in 1955
- Since 1880
- 1,296,316people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,291,851 boys have been named Steven in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 38,410 births — 1.8% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 1,284 births in 2024, against 38,410 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1950s alone account for 26%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 67 of them in the top 100 and 7 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,465 girls have also been given it, 0.34% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Steven | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 177 | |
| 1890s | 186 | |
| 1900s | 338 | |
| 1910s | 2,530 | |
| 1920s | 3,639 | |
| 1930s | 4,834 | |
| 1940s | 81,205 | |
| 1950s | 333,657 | |
| 1960s | 290,599 | |
| 1970s | 188,096 | |
| 1980s | 177,470 | |
| 1990s | 121,104 | |
| 2000s | 53,908 | |
| 2010s | 26,889 | |
| 2020s | 7,219 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Steven was the 10th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1956 were Michael, James, Robert, David and John. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Steven
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gregorypeak 1962
- Michealpeak 1957
- Jeffriepeak 1961
- Ricpeak 1958
- Michaelpeak 1957
- Jeffrypeak 1956
- Craigpeak 1960
- Darylpeak 1956
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.