Stevenson
Stevenson was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,633 among boys’ names; 1,559 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Stevenson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 28 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stevenson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Stevenson?
#13,633 among boys’ names, 2025
Stevenson fell from #6,267 in 2015 to #13,633 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 2.9 per million.
35 babies in 1953, the peak
Stevenson peaked in 1953, when 35 boys were given it, #1,275 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,633 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,744 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,460 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,770 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,639 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,451 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,561 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,291 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,060 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,300 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,267 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,508 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,576 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,583 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,661 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,549 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,167 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,869 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,739 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,345 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,200 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,242 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,252 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,970 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,620 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,752 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,500 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,576 | 11.0 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,205 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,363 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 16 | #4,016 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,745 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,184 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,731 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 31 | #2,336 | 15.3 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,146 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,399 | 14.0 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,423 | 13.1 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,456 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 33 | #1,867 | 17.9 |
| 1985 | 28 | #2,065 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 23 | #2,280 | 12.7 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,562 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,584 | 10.5 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,480 | 11.2 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,435 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,455 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,911 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,544 | 11.0 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,586 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 21 | #2,195 | 13.4 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,102 | 7.6 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,498 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,642 | 8.6 |
| 1971 | 30 | #1,630 | 17.0 |
| 1970 | 20 | #2,047 | 10.8 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,968 | 10.6 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,297 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 21 | #1,752 | 12.0 |
| 1966 | 22 | #1,680 | 12.3 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,256 | 7.5 |
| 1964 | 19 | #1,889 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,739 | 10.8 |
| 1962 | 20 | #1,845 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,991 | 8.5 |
| 1960 | 23 | #1,725 | 10.8 |
| 1959 | 20 | #1,859 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 29 | #1,478 | 13.7 |
| 1957 | 22 | #1,746 | 10.2 |
| 1956 | 25 | #1,601 | 11.8 |
| 1955 | 26 | #1,533 | 12.6 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,431 | 14.2 |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,275 | 17.7 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,399 | 15.4 |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,370 | 15.9 |
| 1950 | 19 | #1,738 | 10.6 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,112 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 16 | #1,937 | 9.1 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,157 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,892 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,725 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,077 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,201 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,919 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,101 | 6.0 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,843 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,885 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,991 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,601 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,094 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,260 | 4.8 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,720 | 4.4 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,697 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,285 | 5.3 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,901 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,217 | 5.6 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,722 | 4.9 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,517 | 12.4 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,862 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Stevenson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stevenson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Stevenson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stevenson, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 81% of the 1,559 Americans ever recorded as Stevenson. The median Stevenson alive today is 42 years old; half are between 28 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 1,513 people named Stevenson (29 women and girls, 1,484 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,272 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 280 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 259 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 349 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 218 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 131 |
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Stevenson
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 Stevenson and names like it
- Compare Stevenson and StephanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sStevenson peaked in 1953.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stevenson since 1910.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Stevenson.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Stevenson alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.