Steed
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Steed has been given to 62 babies in the U.S. since 1967. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1969, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Steed, 1984
1 in 581,000
Steed over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Steed?
Steed had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1984
- 1 in 581,000
- 6 of 3,488,451 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 301,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1984
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 403,003 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Steed sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1984 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 403,003 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Steed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Steeds were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Steed was born before 1969 — so the typical Steed is around 56 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 62
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (31).
Is Steed rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1969 (17)
- Years since peak
- 56
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 55.2% average annual change
Spellings of Steed
Steed is not the most common spelling — Steven is, with 77.5% against Steed's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Steed is used
Across 1910–2025, Steed was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,313,832 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Michigan1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Steed has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Steed around the world
Where Steed ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2005–2005#3,849in 2005
- France1974–2007#5,153in 2007
- South Australia1981–2002#606in 2002
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Steed by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Steed
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Steed
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.