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Esteban vs Estherlene

American parents have registered 35,623 Estebans since 1880, against 13 Estherlenes. Esteban is still ahead, with 673 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Esteban against Estherlene, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Esteban Estherlene

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Esteban has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1891 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1932, when Esteban had 32 and Estherlene had 8.

Side by side

  Esteban Estherlene
Total US births 35,62313
Most in one year 1,0248
Babies in 2025 673under 5
Estimated living today 33,0002
Median age today 2193
Peak year 20051932
Best rank 320th boys3,274th girls
Rank in 2025 461stunranked
First recorded 18911932
Girls / boys 31 / 35,59213 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Estherlenes alive today are over 93; half the Estebans are over 21. That is 72 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Esteban and Estherlene.