Esteban
Esteban reached its high-water mark in 2005 at number 320, and has been recorded 35,623 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 461st. About 33,000 Estebans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Esteban boys named Esteban
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 35,623
- Estimated living today
- 33,000
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2005
- Best rank
- 320th
- Rank in 2025
- 461st
- First recorded
- 1891
- Girls / boys
- 31 / 35,592
How old the living Estebans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 35,623 babies given the name since 1891, about 33,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 13,000 of them are children and 730 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Estebans
- Esteban Cambiasso (born 1980)Argentine association football player
- Esteban Ocon (born 1996)French racing driver
- Esteban Granero (born 1987)Spanish footballer
- Esteban Gutiérrez (born 1991)Mexican race car driver
- Esteban Paredes (born 1980)Chilean footballer
- Esteban Chaves (born 1990)Road racing cyclist
- Esteban Echeverría Mamani (1805–1851)Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and political activist
- Esteban Alvarado (born 1989)Costa Rican football player
People named Esteban with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Esteban is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Esteban is most concentrated in Arizona (3.9×), Texas (3.6×), California (3.5×), Nevada (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2005
The most popular boys’ names the year Esteban peaked:
Esteban elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Esteban +5 spellings | 33,280 | 43rd |
| Belgium boys | Esteban +1 spelling | 2,052 | 120th |
| Switzerland boys | Esteban | 782 | 129th |
| England and Wales boys | Esteban | 104 | 2,693rd |
| Poland boys | Esteban | 10 birth registrations | 556th |
| France girls | Esteban | 5 | 4,779th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Esteban: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Esteban | 56 | 0.005% | 555th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Esteban | 721 | 0.166% | 26th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Esteban | 5 | 0.008% | 117th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Esteban is most concentrated in Neuchâtel, where 0.24% of children were given it – 85 of them.
Esteban: rank by region
In 2025, Esteban was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Esteban | 218 | 13 |
| Brussels | Esteban | 265 | 5 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Esteban appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (215th) and Brussels-Capital Region (265th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Esteban among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Esteban | 12 | 50 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Esteban lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 28,434 men called Esteban were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zamora | Esteban | 196 | 2.391 | 79 |
| Burgos | Esteban | 340 | 1.874 | 90 |
| Palencia | Esteban | 136 | 1.726 | 104 |
| Pontevedra | Esteban | 788 | 1.723 | 100 |
| León | Esteban | 362 | 1.660 | 99 |
| Jaén | Esteban | 506 | 1.654 | 96 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Esteban against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.