Steward
Steward was last recorded in 2002, when 7 babies were given it; 1,229 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Steward by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Steward?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,250, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1920, the peak
Steward peaked in 1920, when 37 boys were given it, #1,206 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #9,250 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #11,075 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,104 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,855 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,659 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,561 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,628 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,632 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,991 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,732 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 16 | #3,178 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,416 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,768 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,224 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,595 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,544 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,415 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,230 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,883 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,581 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,807 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,686 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,263 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,798 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,186 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,803 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,618 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,796 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,667 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,712 | 6.3 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,466 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,760 | 5.6 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,457 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,396 | 6.5 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,518 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 18 | #1,950 | 8.7 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,138 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,109 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,187 | 7.0 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,013 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,264 | 6.5 |
| 1956 | 18 | #1,939 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 22 | #1,674 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,818 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,892 | 9.1 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,143 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,639 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,190 | 7.3 |
| 1949 | 21 | #1,662 | 11.8 |
| 1948 | 17 | #1,876 | 9.7 |
| 1947 | 19 | #1,780 | 10.4 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,259 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,570 | 14.1 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,973 | 10.3 |
| 1943 | 16 | #1,898 | 11.2 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,372 | 8.0 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,684 | 14.7 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,068 | 11.2 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,595 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,078 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 16 | #1,819 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,435 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,234 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,245 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,084 | 13.1 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,445 | 10.5 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,837 | 16.4 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,687 | 18.2 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,948 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,700 | 19.0 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,598 | 21.3 |
| 1926 | 17 | #1,970 | 15.3 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,489 | 23.3 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,772 | 18.5 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,111 | 14.6 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,636 | 21.1 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,641 | 20.9 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,206 | 34.8 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,570 | 23.5 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,370 | 27.6 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,890 | 18.4 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,712 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,050 | 16.5 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,762 | 21.4 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,244 | 15.6 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,241 | 16.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,810 | 25.7 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,480 | 33.2 |
| 1899 | 9 | #777 | 84.7 |
| 1892 | 7 | #943 | 57.4 |
| 1889 | 6 | #963 | 54.3 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,164 | 41.4 |
| 1882 | 6 | #931 | 52.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Steward a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Steward has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 93 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Steward: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Steward, and how old are they?
An estimated 543 Americans named Steward and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (44% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 44 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 704 people named Steward (13 women and girls, 691 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 622 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
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 Steward
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 Steward and names like it
- Compare Steward and NamonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sSteward peaked in 1920.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Steward since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Steward.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Steward alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.