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Stevens

Boys' name

From Indonesian patronymic; literal meaning unconfirmed

Stevens has been given to 1,306 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1989, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Stevens, 2024

1 in 669,000

Stevens over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stevens: meaning, origin, and history

From Indonesian patronymic; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Stevens means

Stevens is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Stevens is used in English.

Stevens comes through Indonesian patronymic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,306 boys were recorded with the name Stevens between 1913 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1989; its best national rank was #1,456 in 1949.

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.

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How common is Stevens?

Stevens had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stevens 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stevens. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stevenss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stevens was born before 1971 — so the typical Stevens is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
15.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
969
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 15.8% of all recorded uses (206).

Is Stevens 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1989 (31)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,456
1949

Spellings of Stevens

Stevens is not the most common spelling — Steven is, with 83.6% against Stevens's 0.08%.

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 Stevens is used

Across 1910–2025, Stevens was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 213,424 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 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. Stevens has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Stevens around the world

Where Stevens 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.

  • France
    1968–2017
    #6,336
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1991–2001
    #1,795
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1951–1992
    #538
    in 1992

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Stevens 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,456
1949
Peak year
1989
31 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,306
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Stevens

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

StephensSteffanSteffenStellanSterlinStefanoStefonStefenStewardSteeleStephanoSteffonStevensonStefanosSteliosStevanStephonSteelMarvensStepanStetsonStedmanStevonStephone

Sibling names for Stevens

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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