Stewart
Masculine · “keeper of the household”
Stewart is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 31,200 boys against 85 girls since 1880.
Stewart is a job that became a dynasty. The steward of the Scottish king was a real office, and the family that held it hereditarily eventually took the throne themselves — and the word behind the office is startlingly humble.
How old is the name Stewart?
Stewart was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Stewart alive today was born around 1957, making them about 68 years old. About 19,000 people named Stewart are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Stewart most popular?
Stewart peaked in 1898, reaching #268 nationally. Today it ranks #3949, 3,681 places below that high. See the whole 1898 chart.
Where it comes from
From stigweard to Stewart
The story of Stewart
The hereditary High Stewards of Scotland took their office as a surname, and when Robert Stewart inherited the crown in 1371 the family name became a royal house that ruled Scotland and then England for three centuries. The French spelling Stuart came later, from Mary Queen of Scots' time in France. Stewart crossed into given-name use in the nineteenth century and peaked in American records around 1962.
Meaning
keeper of the household; sty guardian
From the Old English stigweard — stig, an enclosure or hall, and weard, 'guardian'. The stig element is the same word as 'sty', which is why the etymology is often reported as 'guardian of the pig sty'; in practice it meant the keeper of a great household's stores and lands, one of the highest offices a non-noble could hold.
How the name formed
- stigweard
- Steward
- Stewart
Related forms: Stuart · Stiùbhart
Pronouncing Stewart
STOO-urt
Two syllables, stress on the first. Stewart and Stuart are said identically; the second spelling is the French-influenced one.
Nicknames for Stewart
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
- 1880
- Most boys named
- 1960628 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #268reached in 1898
- Change vs 2022
- +8.0%27 in 2025, from 25
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.
Stewart in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Stuart in English — spelling variant
- Stiùbhart in Scottish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Tennessee.
Stewarts among us
people named Stewart are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 63,262 born in 2025 was named Stewart
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Stewart 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
Where Stewart is headed
Stewart should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Stewart beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Stewart in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented royal house and a real medieval office stand behind it.
- The etymology is genuinely surprising and easy to tell.
- Stu is a short, plain form available immediately.
- Stuart is an equally established spelling and the two are constantly confused.
- It is closely dated to the middle of the twentieth century in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Stewarts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 19,000 people named Stewart are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Stewart in 2025?
- Stewart ranks #3949 among US boy names in 2025, with 27 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Stewart?
- About 1 in every 63,262 US boys born in 2025 was named Stewart — 27 in all.
- Will my child share the name Stewart with classmates?
- Stewart will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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