Stevenson

#13,633 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Stevenson has been given to 1,559 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #13,633 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1953, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Stevenson, 2025

1 in 663,000

Stevenson over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,633
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stevenson 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stevenson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stevensons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stevenson was born before 1977 — so the typical Stevenson is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
17.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,383
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1950s — 17.0% of all recorded uses (265).

Is Stevenson 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
−3,889
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,182
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,366
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.3%
Peak was 1953 (35)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,275
1953

Spellings of Stevenson

Stevenson is the most-used spelling, taking 54.4% of the 2,865 babies given a near-identical spelling.

  • Stevenson54.4%1,559
  • Stevens45.6%1,306

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 Stevenson is used

Across 1910–2025, Stevenson was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 303,798 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Louisiana1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Stevenson has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Stevenson around the world

Where Stevenson 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
    1982–2018
    #3,672
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1992–1993
    #1,469
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1956–1956
    #408
    in 1956

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.

Stevenson by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,633
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,182
Best rank ever
#1,275
1953
Peak year
1953
35 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,559
Count in 2025
5

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Sibling names for Stevenson

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