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Steen

Boys' name

Stone

Steen has been given to 151 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1990, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Steen, 2007

1 in 800,000

Steen over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Steen: meaning, origin, and history

Stone

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Steen means

Steen means “stone”, associated with steinn.

Origin, language, and formation

Steen is used in Danish.

Steen comes through Old Norse Steinn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stein and Sten.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 151 boys were recorded with the name Steen between 1950 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1990; its best national rank was #3,213 in 1966.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Steen?

Steen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 800,000
5 of 3,997,748 births
Among boys only
1 in 415,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
554,207 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Steen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Steen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Steens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Steen was born before 1974 — so the typical Steen is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
151
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Steen 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 1990 (10)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,213
1966

Spellings of Steen

Steen is not the most common spelling — Steven is, with 44.6% against Steen'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.

Steen around the world

Where Steen 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.

  • Canada
    1995–1995
    #1,710
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1980–1980
    #422
    in 1980

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Steen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,213
1966
Peak year
1990
10 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
151
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Steen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

StepanSteinSteelSteliosStetsynStenSteedStetsenMakeenStefenStepfonSteevenStellaJaydeenYameenStepenAkeenSterlynSterlinStevinStefonMubeenStephanosSteaven

Sibling names for Steen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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