Steele is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Steele is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1384 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,383 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Steele.
While Steele isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to be attracting more and more parents in the 21st century. In 2017 the name Steele reached its highest popularity with #1,087 in our ranking of all male first names. Because it's so exquisite, moms and dads haven't always thought of naming their son Steele (or at least not more than four in some years as there must be at least five boys named Steele to appear in the official statistics). Using these criteria, the first name Steele has been given to babies in 80 of the 143 years since records began, making boys with this name still very special today.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Steele was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 128 babies were born with the name Steele. This puts the name in rank 1,306 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 1,345,217 newborns was named Steele that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Steele has been and remains marvelously unusual!
You may not know anyone named Steele, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 27 states are home to men and boys named Steele. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Steele living in one state or another. If your name is Steele and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Utah, which has the most people named Steele relative to the population, you still have to ask 24,758 men and boys their names before you hear Steele as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Steele is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Steele and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Steele, you can simply say:
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Lion
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Steele
Steele
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Steele sounds like this:
