Steely
Steely is given to both girls and boys: 29 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,741 among girls’ names and #13,628 among boys’, #7,404 among all names counting both); 218 Americans have been recorded with it since 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Steely by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Steely?
#4,741 among girls’ names, 2025
Steely entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #4,741 in 2025.
34 babies in 2025, the peak
Steely peaked in 2025, when 34 babies were given it (29 girls, #4,741 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 33 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,741 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,372 | 20.4 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,348 | 20.6 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,779 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,927 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,310 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,263 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,321 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,937 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,746 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #16,598 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,515 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,839 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,094 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,179 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Steely a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 218 Americans recorded as Steely, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Steely: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Steely, and how old are they?
An estimated 217 Americans named Steely and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 8. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 186 people named Steely (114 women and girls, 72 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 66 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 207,879 babies since 1880, Steely is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 4,199 babies (<1%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Steely
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 Steely and names like it
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