Stewart
About 31,285 American babies have been named Stewart since 1880, most of them around 1956. In 2025 it ranked 3,949th. About 18,000 Stewarts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 58.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Stewart boys named Stewart
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 31,285
- Estimated living today
- 18,000
- Median age today
- 58
- Peak year
- 1956
- Best rank
- 290th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,949th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 85 / 31,200
How old the living Stewarts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 31,285 babies given the name since 1880, about 18,000 are alive — 59 in every hundred. Roughly 760 of them are children and 6,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1967 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
from enm-esc stewart, from Old English stiġweard.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Stewarts
- Stewart Downing (born 1984)English association football player
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927)British-German racialist philosopher
- John Stewart Bell (1928–1990)Northern Irish physicist
- Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891)Irish politician
- Stewart Granger (1913–1993)British actor
- Stewart Copeland (born 1952)American drummer and composer
- Stewart Brand (born 1938)American writer
- Stewart Cink (born 1973)professional golfer
People named Stewart with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Stewart is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Stewart is most concentrated in Virginia (2.1×), Maryland (1.8×), New York (1.8×), Utah (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1956
The most popular boys’ names the year Stewart peaked:
Stewart elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Stewart | 4,410 | 41st |
| New Zealand boys | Stewart | 499 | 94th |
| England and Wales boys | Stewart | 481 | 358th |
| Ireland boys | Stewart | 344 | 159th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Stewart | 80 | 125th |
| France boys | Stewart | 70 | 3,735th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Stewart among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Stewart | 6 | 19 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Stewart against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.