Steelie
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- STEE-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #7,883 for girls
Steelie is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “hard as steel”. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).
What does Steelie mean?
English: spelling of Steely; English word name
“hard as steel”
Meaning borrowed from Steely.
Is Steelie a girl's or a boy's name?
Steelie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Steelie in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,883rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 120,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Steelie, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
Half of all the girls named Steelie in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Steelie in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,883 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,686 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
Names like Steelie
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hallie, Evie, Millie, Sadie, Josie, Nellie, Birdie, Sophie, Ellie, Olive, Hattie, Winnie
Names related to Steelie
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hazel
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Steelie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/steelie, updated 20 October 2026.