The default minecraft character/skin does not have an official name, but in a very old blog pst, when Markus "Notch" Persson (Minecraft's original creator and developer) was asked what the character's/skin's name was, he replied "Steve?" Since no players really know what the name of the character/skin is, and they only have this information to back them up, most players name the character/skin Steve.
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Perhaps because that is his name.
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The default character.
Notch's real name is Markus Alexej Persson. Alexej a Swedish video game programmer and designer who founded and built Minecraft and the video game company Mojang in 2009.
He has a Goatee