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Steven

Boys' name · Mid-century perennial

Living in the US
~1,073,500 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#271 among boys
Births in 2025
1,261 1,297,590 since 1880
Typical age
55 years, median

Steven popularity over time

Steven rank by birth year, 1880–2025Steven ranked #425 in 1880 and #271 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #10, in 1955.#10#100#271best #10 in 195518901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1956: 38,491 births recorded as Steven. The name is already in use in 1880, where the data begins. Across the record, 67 years put Steven in the top 100.

As of 2025 the name sits at #271, with 1,261 births that year. The ten-year change is -54%.

Babies named Steven per yearPeaks at 38,491 births in 1956.38,491 in 1956018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Steven?

An estimated 1,073,500 living Americans are called Steven. That is out of 1,297,590 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Steven?

The typical living Steven is 55 years old. More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Steven a mid-century perennial name.

Your Steven

Ages of living people named StevenHalf of living Stevens are older than 55 and half younger.median 55020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Steven is most common

The name is concentrated in Maryland, at 1.8× the national rate. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Mississippi follow.

Where Steven is used more than average5 states use the name Steven more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: 1.6× the national ratePANew Jersey: 1.7× the national rateNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: 1.8× the national rateMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: 1.5× the national rateNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: 1.6× the national rateMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Steven is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Maryland 426 1.8×
New Jersey 636 1.7×
Pennsylvania 802 1.6×
Mississippi 171 1.6×
New Mexico 93 1.5×

Steven in England and Wales

ONS recorded 31 births named Steven in 2025, ranking it #976. That is 46% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Steven comes from

Inherited from Middle English Stevene, Steven, from Anglo-Norman Estievne, Estievene, from Latin Stephanus, from Ancient Greek Στέφανος, from στέφανος (“crown, wreath”), from στέφω (“to put round, to surround”).

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Steven

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Steven Spielberg American filmmaker 1946 170
Steven Seagal American actor, martial artist, and film producer 1952 127
Steven Weinberg American theoretical physicist 1933–2021 96
Steven Gerrard English association football player and manager 1980 96
Steven Chu American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate 1948 79
Steven Soderbergh American filmmaker 1963 79
Steven Tyler American singer 1948 66
Steven Pinker Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind 1954 62
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The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 1,569 in 1940 to 2,476 in 1941 — 1.6 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

How Steven is usually spelled

Spellings within one or two letters of each other, and how 2025 births divided between them.
SpellingBirths in 2025Share
Steven this page 1,261 60%
Stephen 829 40%

Names similar to Steven

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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