Steve is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Steve isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Steve ranks 955. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Steve. In the entire USA, approximately 234,136 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Steve. That is 0.07 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Steve is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Steve for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Steve is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Steve is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed at #41 Steve easily made it into the top 100 boys' names of our SmartGenius statistics for male first names and has never been more popular than back in 1959.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Steve was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Steve occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Steve is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Steve is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 234,086 men and boys of all generations bear the name Steve – that is one in 713. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in New Mexico, where one in 400 men and boys is called Steve, while it is particularly rare in Rhode Island, where you have to ask an average of 2,163 men for their name to get Steve as an answer 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 five letters, the name Steve is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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 Steve 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 Steve, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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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. Steve sounds like this:
