Steele

Meaning: Like steel; a metalworker or someone as hard as steel
Origin: Middle English

Boy's name · #1185 in the US (2025) · Trending

Popularity over time

Steele is climbing: on the charts since 1920, it reached #1185 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 170 boys given the name last year. Roughly 3,100 have carried it all-time.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 13 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#3,721 in Canada (2024).

Famous Steeles

Steele Von Hoff — Australian racing cyclist
Steele Johnson — American diver
Steele MacKaye — American playwright and inventor (1842–1894)
Steele Bishop — Australian racing cyclist
Steele Hall — Australian politician (1928–2024)

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 88,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

Richard Steele — 17th/18th-century Anglo-Irish writer, playwright, and politician
Peter Steele — American musician (1962–2010)
Barbara Steele — British actress

What Steeles become

Among 20 notable people named Steele:

Sports figures appear 2.46× more often than among typical names — e.g. Steele Von Hoff, Australian racing cyclist.

Similar names: Stiles · Macklin · Stone · Axle · Slater · Zyon

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