Stedman

Last seen for boys in 2017 at #10,775

Peak · boys
1989 · 82 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
368
since 1918

Stedman over time

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Rank among boys' names. Stedman has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201918peak #1,173, 1989boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1999#5,31712
1998#9,6315
1997#4,96012
1996#7,1367
1995#6,4078
1994#3,46919
1993#3,50118
1992#3,92015
1991#2,46928
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1989#1,17382
1988#2,14629
1987#2,64120
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First appearance
1918

The first year at least five boys were named Stedman! It came in at #3,728, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1920–1986, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Stedman is popular in 1918

No state had 5 or more boys named Stedman in 1918, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Stedman
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2017
Rise & fade · boys
71 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1918
  • Peaked 1989 at #1,173 (82 births)
  • Births halved by 1990, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 24,402
  • Highest: 1 in 24,402 boys born in 1989 were named Stedman (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 308,493 boys born in 2017 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 44.0% of all boys named Stedman (162) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s12#3,728 (1918)#3,732
1920s10#3,959 (1929)#4,123
1930s10#3,480 (1939)#3,622
1940s0——
1950s0——
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1980s131#1,173 (1989)#1,987
1990s162#1,968 (1990)#4,878
2000s23#7,416 (2000)#10,453
2010s20#8,816 (2016)#10,078

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Stedman in 1918

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#3,728
6 births · 1 in 168,913 boys

Top boys' names in 1918

  1. #1John56,558
  2. #2William45,291
  3. #3James42,115
  4. #4Robert40,619
  5. #5Charles26,921
  6. #6George26,318
  7. #7Joseph26,261
  8. #8Edward19,489
  9. #9Frank17,018
  10. #10Thomas13,910
  11. #3,728Stedman6
More about 1918

boys

1,013,480 boys got a published name in 1918; 1 in 168,913 of them was named Stedman, which outranked 22.5% of the 4,813 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Stedman
  1. #3,368Yaro7
  2. #3,368Yoshiyuki7
  3. #3,368Zed7
  4. #3,728Stedman6
  5. #3,728Ab6
  6. #3,728Abran6
  7. #3,728Acencion6
  8. #4,179Abdon5
  9. #4,179Abelino5
  10. #4,179Abert5

Tied with 450 names at #3,728; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1917
Risers
  1. ↑ 600Quinton#1,092 → #492
  2. ↑ 542Pershing#876 → #334
  3. ↑ 480Quentin#723 → #243
  4. ↑ 440Issac#1,264 → #824
  5. ↑ 339Furman#1,092 → #753
Fallers
  1. ↓ 473Bernhard#900 → #1,373
  2. ↓ 424Edson#919 → #1,343
  3. ↓ 394Gasper#919 → #1,313
  4. ↓ 352Berton#934 → #1,286
  5. ↓ 346Ishmael#997 → #1,343

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1918 →