Steele
Steele was given to 174 boys in 2025, #1,185 among boys’ names; 3,191 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,040 Americans named Steele and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Steele by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Steele?
#1,185 among boys’ names, 2025
Steele rose from #1,597 in 2015 to #1,185 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.10 per 1,000.
184 babies in 2025, the peak
Steele peaked in 2025, when 184 babies were given it (174 boys, #1,185 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 137 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 174 | #1,185 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 137 | #1,381 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 143 | #1,336 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 120 | #1,515 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 112 | #1,563 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 106 | #1,561 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 104 | #1,604 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 133 | #1,351 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 147 | #1,249 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 134 | #1,338 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 101 | #1,597 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 94 | #1,652 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 89 | #1,681 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 92 | #1,673 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 71 | #1,962 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 53 | #2,392 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 54 | #2,397 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,503 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 53 | #2,434 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,441 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 44 | #2,555 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 37 | #2,833 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,024 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 46 | #2,284 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 42 | #2,375 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 52 | #1,987 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,054 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,061 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 47 | #1,957 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 32 | #2,471 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 34 | #2,337 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,168 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 34 | #2,282 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,517 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,813 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,682 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,676 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,843 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,626 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,108 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #4,013 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,803 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,897 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,921 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,152 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,813 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,290 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,382 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,154 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #5,008 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,378 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,345 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,285 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,433 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,916 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,877 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,537 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,608 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,557 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,620 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,799 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,440 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,182 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,306 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,395 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,335 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,190 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,995 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,777 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,289 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #3,067 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,844 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,946 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,225 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,631 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,092 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,655 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,154 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,696 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,864 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,772 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,899 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,741 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Steele a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,191 Americans recorded as Steele, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 girls and 174 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Steele: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Steele, and how old are they?
3,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,191 Americans ever recorded as Steele. The median Steele alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,237 people named Steele (144 women and girls, 2,093 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,246 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 67 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 71 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 342 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 850 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,700 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Steele born?
The states with the most babies named Steele are Texas, Georgia and California, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 22 | #1,066 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 12 | #785 | 0.3× |
| California | 10 | #1,668 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,247 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 9 | #712 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,017 | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #609 | 0.6× |
| Utah | 6 | #690 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,215 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,248 | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Steele with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Steele
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Steele and names like it
- Compare Steele and LipaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSteele peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Steele since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Steele.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Steele alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.