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Esteban

boy name
Origin
Spanish
Syllables
3
Peak era
2000s/2020s
Today
▬ Steady

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Meaning

form of Stephen, Greek "crown"

The story

At a Catalan table on 26 December, the name family behind Esteban can arrive with the cannelloni. The feast is Sant Esteve, and Barcelona’s intercultural calendar records cannelloni as a traditional first course in Catalonia. Esteve is Catalan; Esteban is the Spanish form of Stephen, while Portuguese has Estêvão. Their shared Greek ancestor, Stephanos, means a crown or wreath. The biblical Stephen enters Acts in a setting less ceremonial than that meaning might suggest: complaints that widows were being overlooked in the community’s daily distribution. He is among seven people chosen in response. The text does not show him serving the food, and it supplies no origin story for the later Catalan menu. What connects these settings is the name: Esteban’s linguistic relative gives a specific day on the calendar its place at the table.

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Esteban across languages

One shared root links 11 names across 5 languages.

Shared root: from Greek stephanos "crown, garland"

The constellation

EstebanSpanishStephenEnglishStephanGermanStefanoItalian

More branches

StevenEnglish · variantSteveEnglish · short formEstevanSpanish · variantStephanieFrench · feminine formStefanieGerman · feminine formStephanyEnglish · feminine formStephaniaEnglish · feminine form

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How popular is Esteban around the world?

In the United States, 4,125 babies were named Esteban between 2020 and 2025. In Chile, 265 boys were registered as Esteban in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.

Esteban is on the official records of the United States, Chile, Montevideo, Mexico City, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Spain, France, Canada, Poland, England and Wales and Brazil.

United States

1 in 5,300

In the United States, 4,125 babies were named Esteban between 2020 and 2025.

1890speak 2000s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Esteban peaked in the 2000s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.

Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

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Chile

1 in 670

In Chile, 265 boys were registered as Esteban in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.

1920peak 1996

share of that year’s name registrations

First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021

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Montevideo City

1 in 790 · 2011

In Montevideo, 31 boys named Esteban were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.

1940peak 2002

share of that year’s births on record

Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial

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Mexico City City

1 in 820

In Mexico City, there were 144 registrations of Esteban in 2022.

2000peak 20142022

share of that year’s registrations in the city

Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023 (2 registrations through 3 Mar) is excluded as partial. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023

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Puerto Rico

1 in 1,100

In Puerto Rico, 17 babies were named Esteban in 2025, and 1,166 have carried the name since 1998.

1998peak 20092025

share of that year’s births on record

First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)

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Argentina

1 in 1,400

In Argentina, 461 newborns were given the name Esteban in 2024.

peak 20122024

share of that year’s name registrations

Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024

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Spain

1 in 1,600

In Spain, 28,434 residents are named Esteban, the 116th most common name among men, with a mean age of 52.1 years.

Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025

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France

1 in 2,100

In France, about 310 boys named Esteban were born in 2025, the 177th most common name among boys that year.

1900peak 2008

share of that year’s births on record

Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. This registry counts each spelling separately; the figures above are for the exact spelling Esteban, and accented spellings are separate names. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)

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Canada

1 in 26,000

In Canada, 14 boys named Esteban were born in 2024, ranked 1,536th among boys that year.

1991peak 20082024

share of that year’s name registrations

First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)

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Poland

1 in 120,000

In Poland, 2 boys named Esteban were born in 2025, the 705th most common name among boys that year.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.

First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)

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England and Wales

1 in 200,000

In England and Wales, 3 boys named Esteban were born in 2025, ranked 5,137th among boys that year.
The count never rose above 7 in a year, too few to chart.

Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales

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Brazil

1 in 330,000

At the 2022 census, 620 people in Brazil were named Esteban, ranked 11,541st, with a median age of 26.
Among people named Esteban living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.

1960speak 2010s

people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth

The census also counted 52 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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Austria

last on record 2023

Esteban is not on the 2025 record for Austria, which publishes every first name down to a single birth, so the name was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.

Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)

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South Australia

last on record 2014

Esteban is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.

Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names

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Not on the record in Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.

Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.

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When you meet Esteban

Most people given the name Esteban in the United States are teenagers or young adults today.

Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.

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