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Stewart

#3,949 in the US in 2025

Where Stewart stands

United States register · 1880–2025

#3,949boys’ names · US 2025

Stewart was the 3,949th most registered boys' name in the United States in 2025, on 27 births.

peak 1956 · 647BELOW THE 5-BIRTH FLOOR — NOT PUBLISHED188019532025

Its moment was 1956, when 647 babies were given it.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

#3,949US rank, 2025 (boys)
27US births in 2025
#268its best US rank, in 1898
1956peak year — 647 births
31,200US births since 1880
2,435NZ births since 1900
23E&W births, 2019–2025
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How Stewart's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Stewart was under the floor in no year of its US record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 5 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Stewart in the United States

18801900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 5-BIRTH FLOOR0.01836
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Stewart in the United States, 1880–2025

Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been steady.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Stewart in New Zealand

In New Zealand, Stewart has been registered 2,435 times since 1900, peaking in 1959 with 62 births. It did not clear the DIA's 10-birth reporting floor in 2025.

1900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 10-BIRTH FLOOR0.0126253
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 10-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Stewart in New Zealand, 1900–2025

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Stewart in England & Wales

In England and Wales, Stewart was registered 23 times between 2019 and 2025, peaking in 2020 with 5 births. It ranked #5,136 for boys in 2025 on 3 births.

2020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 3-BIRTH FLOOR0.00.91.7
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 3-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Stewart in England and Wales, 2019–2025

Seven years is a window, not a history. Unlike the American and New Zealand series this one cannot show you a name's arrival or its long decline — ONS publishes the full list only from 2019. England and Wales only: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not counted here.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
1880#39219
1890#33527
1900#34340
1910#34553
1920#364270
1930#354259
1940#347271
1950#326434
1960#313628
1970#443341
1980#546246
1990#593282
2000#1,172117
2010#2,28756
2020#3,49731

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Where in the United States

The states that registered Stewart most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.

StateBirths
New York3,441
California2,099
Pennsylvania2,039
Texas1,368
Illinois1,252
Michigan1,230
Virginia1,163
Ohio1,009
North Carolina965
New Jersey834

Questions about Stewart

How popular is the name Stewart?

Stewart ranked #3,949 for boys in the United States in 2025, on 27 births registered with the Social Security Administration.

When was Stewart most popular?

Stewart peaked in 1956, when 647 babies in the United States were given the name.

Is Stewart rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all boys' births, Stewart has been steady between 2016 and 2025.

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 1956, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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