Steele — #1385 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Steele

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,877 babies named Steele between 1920 and 2024, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Steele currently holds the #1385 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 147 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Steele performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,018 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Steele shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 192 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Steele in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Steele in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,877 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.