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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Steele

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#1,185

up +196 places

2025 births

174

up +37 births

All-time births

3,053

6% of them in 2025

More common than

94%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2025
174 births
Best rank
#1,185
in 2025
First recorded
1920
#2,742 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2006
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
83 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2025174#1,185Peak
  2. 2017147#1,249
  3. 2023143#1,336
  4. 2024137#1,381
  5. 2016134#1,338

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,185 in 2025 · peak births 174 in 2025

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 96% boys■ 4% girls

3,053 boys · 138 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Steele has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.