# Esteban (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/esteban/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 35,623 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 35,592 / 31 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 104, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 7 | 10,632 |
| 1992 | 6 | 12,244 |
| 1993 | 5 | 14,186 |
| 1995 | 6 | 12,258 |
| 1998 | 7 | 11,513 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 764 | 382 |
| 2012 | 760 | 392 |
| 2013 | 761 | 392 |
| 2014 | 790 | 395 |
| 2015 | 775 | 399 |
| 2016 | 762 | 416 |
| 2017 | 725 | 428 |
| 2018 | 687 | 441 |
| 2019 | 685 | 446 |
| 2020 | 633 | 471 |
| 2021 | 716 | 435 |
| 2022 | 718 | 431 |
| 2023 | 703 | 442 |
| 2024 | 682 | 459 |
| 2025 | 673 | 461 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | 2,507 |
| 2009 | 6 | 2,837 |
| 2010 | 5 | 3,332 |
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2014 | 4 | 3,895 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2016 | 7 | 2,804 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2,693 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,451 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,048 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Esteban

- Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine association football player (born 1980)
- Esteban Ocon, French racing driver
- Esteban Paredes, Chilean footballer and coach
- Esteban Echeverría Mamani, Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and political activist
- Esteban Alvarado, Costa Rican football player
- Estanislao Esteban Karlic, Argentine Catholic cardinal and archbishop (1926–2025)
- Óscar Esteban Granados, Costa Rican footballer
- Esteban Solari, Argentine footballer and manager
- Juan Esteban Pedernera, Argentine politician and military officer (1796–1886)
- Esteban Andrada, Argentinian association football player
- Juan Esteban Montero, Chilean political figure (1879–1948)
- Esteban Dreer, Ecuadorian association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.