Stevenson
Masculine · “son of Steven”
Stevenson says son of Steven and has been doing so since surnames hardened in England. What is interesting is where it went afterward. It is a first name in the United States in modest numbers and a genuinely common first name in Haiti, where English and American surnames have been drawn on for boys' names for generations — so the same nine letters can mean an old British patronymic or a thoroughly Caribbean choice.
How old is the name Stevenson?
Stevenson first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Stevenson alive today was born around 1977, making them about 48 years old. About 1,300 people named Stevenson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Stevenson most popular?
Stevenson peaked in 1953, reaching #1261 nationally. Today it ranks #12008, 10,747 places below that high. See the whole 1953 chart.
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Where it comes from
From stephanos to Stevenson
The story of Stevenson
The -son surnames are among the most transparent in English, and Stevenson spread across northern England and lowland Scotland. Its American life as a first name has two quite separate sources. One is the ordinary habit of moving a family surname to the front, reinforced by a governor of Illinois who ran twice for president in the middle of the twentieth century and by a Scottish novelist whose adventure books were in every American schoolroom. The other is Haitian naming, which draws freely on Anglophone surnames and has made Stevenson a standard boy's name there — which is why the name is strongest in the American states where Haitian families settled.
Meaning
son of Steven
A patronymic surname of the plainest kind: a father's name with -son attached, formed in England and Scotland when hereditary surnames were settling in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Behind Steven is the Greek stephanos, a wreath or crown.
How the name formed
- stephanos
- Steven
- Stevenson
Related forms: Stevenson · Stephenson
Pronouncing Stevenson
STEE-vun-sun
Three syllables, stress on the first, the last two reduced. Haitian French speakers often say it closer to stev-en-SON, with the weight at the back, which is a real difference and both are correct in their own settings.
Nicknames for Stevenson
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1912
- Most boys named
- 195335 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1261reached in 1953
- Change vs 2023
- −64.3%5 in 2025, from 14
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Stevenson in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Stevenson in Scots — same name
- Stephenson in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida.
Stevensons among us
people named Stevenson are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 341,615 born in 2025 was named Stevenson
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Leno test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Stevenson's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Leno climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Leno's path sketches the road Stevenson is walking now.
Stevenson sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Stevenson beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Stevenson in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Every part of it is familiar, so nothing has to be spelled out or explained.
- Steve and Steven are both available immediately, and one of them is a complete formal name.
- It has two entirely different histories behind it, and both are worth telling.
- The spelling follows the sound, which nine-letter names often do not.
- Nine letters and three syllables is a substantial name for a small child.
- Stephenson is the other standard spelling and will be written by people who half-remember it.
- It reads as a surname to most Americans, so introductions carry a small pause.
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Frequently asked
- How many Stevensons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Stevenson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Stevenson in 2025?
- Stevenson ranks #12008 among US boy names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Stevenson?
- About 1 in every 341,615 US boys born in 2025 was named Stevenson — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Stevenson with classmates?
- Stevenson will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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