Steven
Steven reached its high-water mark in 1956 at number 10, and has been recorded 1,297,590 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 271st. About 1.1 million Stevens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Steven boys named Steven
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,297,590
- Estimated living today
- 1.1 million
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1956
- Best rank
- 10th
- Rank in 2025
- 271st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 4,466 / 1,293,124
How old the living Stevens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,297,590 babies given the name since 1880, about 1.1 million are alive — 81 in every hundred. Roughly 43,000 of them are children and 295,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
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 from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Stevens
- Steven Spielberg (born 1946)American filmmaker
- Steven Seagal (born 1952)American actor, martial artist, and film producer
- Steven Gerrard (born 1980)English association football player and manager
- Steven Weinberg (1933–2021)American theoretical physicist
- Steven Chu (born 1948)American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate
- Steven Soderbergh (born 1963)American filmmaker
- Steven Tyler (born 1948)American singer
- Steven Pinker (born 1954)Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
People named Steven with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Steven is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Steven is most concentrated in Rhode Island (1.5×), Iowa (1.5×), Minnesota (1.5×), Wisconsin (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1956
The most popular boys’ names the year Steven peaked:
Steven elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Steven +1 spelling | 33,485 | 43rd |
| Scotland boys | Steven | 20,035 | 8th |
| New Zealand boys | Steven | 11,007 | 15th |
| England and Wales boys | Steven | 7,001 | 73rd |
| Ireland boys | Steven | 3,144 | 57th |
| Italy boys | Steven | 1,394 | — |
| Belgium boys | Steven | 1,187 | 78th |
| Norway boys | Steven | 609 | 219th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Steven | 405 | 54th |
| Switzerland boys | Steven | 358 | 164th |
| Poland boys | Steven | 73 birth registrations | 283rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Steven: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Steven | 207 | 0.017% | 168th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Steven | 123 | 0.028% | 83rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Steven | 27 | 0.041% | 76th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Steven | 1 | 0.027% | 13th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Steven is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.04% of children were given it – 27 of them.
Steven: rank by region
In 2016, Steven was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Steven | 865 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Steven by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 580th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Steven among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Steven | 10,892 | 15,201 |
| Finland boys | Steven | 115 | 202 |
| the Netherlands girls | Steven | — | 16 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Steven lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,731 men called Steven were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Steven | 97 | 0.167 | 583 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Steven | 162 | 0.161 | 540 |
| Balears, Illes | Steven | 82 | 0.132 | 584 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Steven | 70 | 0.131 | 717 |
| Málaga | Steven | 99 | 0.113 | 564 |
| Rioja, La | Steven | 18 | 0.112 | 631 |
Listed in 43 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 9 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Steven against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.