# Stewart (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/stewart/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “steward” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈst(j)uɚt/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | Stew, Stewie |
| Variant spellings | Steward, Stuart |
| US babies named this | 31,285 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 31,200 / 85 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 481, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Scots stewart (“steward”), from Early Scots stewart, from Old English stiġweard.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 6 | 4,906 |
| 1942 | 5 | 5,290 |
| 1955 | 5 | 6,608 |
| 1959 | 5 | 7,091 |
| 1962 | 5 | 7,448 |
| 1965 | 5 | 7,391 |
| 1969 | 5 | 8,522 |
| 1970 | 5 | 9,152 |
| 1972 | 6 | 8,125 |
| 1987 | 6 | 11,129 |
| 1988 | 8 | 9,140 |
| 1990 | 7 | 11,250 |
| 1991 | 5 | 15,132 |
| 1996 | 5 | 15,569 |
| 1999 | 7 | 12,526 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 64 | 2,099 |
| 2012 | 64 | 2,127 |
| 2013 | 53 | 2,396 |
| 2014 | 46 | 2,654 |
| 2015 | 54 | 2,405 |
| 2016 | 32 | 3,511 |
| 2017 | 39 | 3,061 |
| 2018 | 30 | 3,691 |
| 2019 | 27 | 3,984 |
| 2020 | 31 | 3,557 |
| 2021 | 32 | 3,569 |
| 2022 | 25 | 4,285 |
| 2023 | 20 | 5,044 |
| 2024 | 28 | 3,967 |
| 2025 | 27 | 4,030 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 14 | 1,620 |
| 2011 | 8 | 2,390 |
| 2012 | 11 | 1,962 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,403 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,020 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,023 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,512 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,412 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 斯圖爾特 /斯图尔特
- French: Stuart
- Latin: Stuartus, Steuardus
- Scottish Gaelic: Stiùbhart

## People named Stewart

- Stewart Downing, English association football player (born 1984)
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British-German racialist philosopher (1855–1927)
- Stewart Granger, British actor (1913–1993)
- Stewart Copeland, American drummer and composer (born 1952)
- Stewart Brand, American writer (born 1938)
- Stewart L. Udall, American Democratic politician, former United States Secretary of the Interior (1920-2010)
- Stewart Menzies, British Army general (1890-1968)
- Stewart Butterfield, Canadian entrepreneur and businessman
- Stewart Raffill, British writer and director (born 1942)
- Stewart Adams, British chemist known for inventing ibuprofen
- Stewart Culin, American ethnographer and writer (1858-1929)
- Albert Stewart Meek, British naturalist, ornithologist and scientific collector (1871–1943)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.