Boy
Steve
Steve is a boy's name meaning "Crown", drawing on Greek roots. It was at its most popular in the 1960s and is rarely chosen now. As things stand now, it is widely recognized. 1959 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.
GreekDiminutive of Stephen
GreekCrown
Births by decade
1900s
1,307
1910s
9,671
1920s
11,428
1930s
8,606
1940s
36,377
1950s
64,430
1960s
65,848
1970s
16,799
1980s
10,494
1990s
7,682
2000s
5,092
2010s
2,020
Peaked in the 1960s · 239,754 total U.S. births since 1900