Meaning not yet researched.
Steele: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 174 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,185 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 95% of babies named Steele in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,185 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Steele: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 174 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,185 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 174 (2025).
In 2025, 174 US boys were named Steele, making it the 1,185th most common boys’ name of the year, up 196 places from #1,381 in 2024. That is 37 more than the 137 boys named Steele in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,185, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 174. For comparison, it was #1,597 in 2015 and #2,996 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Steele in 83 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 11 babies. In all, 3,191 US babies have been given the name, 4.3% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,088 babies named Steele.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,310 US boys were named Steele; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 174. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,817 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Steele ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #609 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Steel, Stelle and Stell are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Steel (865), Stelle (49), Stell (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Steele in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 7 | #609 | — |
| Utah | 6 | #690 | #763 |
| Arizona | 9 | #712 | #872 |
| Georgia | 12 | #785 | — |
| Louisiana | 5 | #887 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #979 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #983 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,017 | #1,280 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,025 | — |
| Texas | 22 | #1,066 | #1,353 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,215 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,247 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,248 | — |
| California | 10 | #1,668 | #2,523 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,024 | 174 | #1,185 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,181 | 137 | #1,381 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,643 | 143 | #1,336 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,113 | 120 | #1,515 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,473 | 112 | #1,563 |
| 2020 | — | — | 106 | #1,561 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,048 | 104 | #1,604 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,737 | 133 | #1,351 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,250 | 147 | #1,249 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,170 | 134 | #1,338 |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,070 | 101 | #1,597 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,891 | 94 | #1,652 |
| 2013 | — | — | 89 | #1,682 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,205 | 92 | #1,674 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,229 | 71 | #1,963 |
| 2010 | — | — | 53 | #2,393 |
| 2009 | — | — | 54 | #2,398 |
| 2008 | — | — | 51 | #2,504 |
| 2007 | — | — | 53 | #2,434 |
| 2006 | — | — | 51 | #2,442 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,828 | 44 | #2,559 |
| 2004 | — | — | 37 | #2,837 |
| 2003 | — | — | 57 | #2,028 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,166 | 46 | #2,288 |
| 2001 | — | — | 42 | #2,379 |
| 2000 | — | — | 52 | #1,991 |
| 1999 | — | — | 47 | #2,057 |
| 1998 | — | — | 46 | #2,064 |
| 1997 | — | — | 47 | #1,960 |
| 1996 | — | — | 32 | #2,476 |
| 1995 | — | — | 34 | #2,342 |
| 1994 | — | — | 38 | #2,173 |
| 1993 | — | — | 34 | #2,287 |
| 1992 | — | — | 29 | #2,522 |
| 1991 | — | — | 24 | #2,819 |
| 1990 | — | — | 25 | #2,687 |
| 1989 | — | — | 24 | #2,682 |
| 1988 | — | — | 20 | #2,848 |
| 1987 | — | — | 21 | #2,630 |
| 1986 | — | — | 16 | #3,111 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #4,017 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,804 |
| 1983 | — | — | 16 | #2,898 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,923 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #6,154 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,814 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,292 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,384 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,156 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #5,010 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,380 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,347 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,286 |
| 1968 | — | — | 13 | #2,434 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,917 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,878 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,538 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,609 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,558 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,621 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,800 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,441 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,183 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,307 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,396 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,337 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,191 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,996 |
| 1949 | — | — | 9 | #2,778 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,290 |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #3,068 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,846 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,947 |
| 1935 | — | — | 7 | #3,225 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,633 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #4,094 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,657 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,156 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,698 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,866 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,775 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,901 |
| 1920 | — | — | 11 | #2,742 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).