Steve

girls:

907 births since 1912

#4809 (16th percentile)

boys:

241k births since 1880

#158 (97th percentile)

overall:

241.9k births since 1880

#332 (96th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Steve".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
907
Peak Births
35
Peak Year
1957
First Recorded
1912
Peak Percentile
3.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#467
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
241,034
Peak Births
11,074
Peak Year
1959
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
93.9%
Current Percentile
12.0%
Peak Rank
#41
Current Rank
#802
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Steve

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Steve. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Steve is pronounced as steev.

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steev (1 syllable)
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100.0% confidence
S T IY1 V

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Steve. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Steve, please vote using the thumbs up button.

STEE-vee (2 syllables)
7 names 29.3k births
S T IY1 V IY0
zeev (1 syllable)
2 names 324 births
Z IY1 V

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like S T IY1 V) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.