Steel Boy
How popular is Steel?
#3,127 boy name in 2025
38 baby boys were named Steel in the US in 2025, making it the 3127th most popular boy name.
Steel popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,127 for boys (▼ 490 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 38 boys |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+15% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #3,364 in 2015, #2,688 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2021 (62 boys) |
| Highest rank | #2,252 in 2021 |
| First recorded | 1984 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 100% boys, 0% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Steel counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Steele family of names ranked #954 for boys in 2025 (#1,031 the year before), with 212 babies in all.
| Spelling | Boys in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Steele | 174 | 82% |
| Steel | 38 | 18% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Steel is most popular
Babies named Steel per 1,000 boys born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (27 boys)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (13 boys)
- Florida: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 boys)
Steel by decade
Boy names about as popular as Steel
Questions
- Is Steel a boy or girl name?
- Steel is mostly a boy name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Steel were boys.
- How popular is the name Steel?
- 38 baby boys were named Steel in the US in 2025, making it the 3127th most popular boy name.
- When was Steel most popular?
- Steel peaked in 2021, when 62 boys were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,252 in 2021.
- How many people are named Steel?
- 865 babies have been named Steel in the US since 1880. We estimate about 857 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Steel most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Steel was most common in Texas, at 0.0 of every 1,000 boys born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.