Estebán
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Estebán is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 9th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin Stephanus, from Ancient Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos).
- CRCosta Rica1 in 407(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 476
- ARArgentina≈1 in 529
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #616 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 434 (measured from records)
- 1 in 407 (inferred from the name graph)
≈86,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Esteban in AR Argentina, CL Chile, PE Peru and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- LatinStephanus(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΣτέφανοςStéphanos(measured from records)
From Latin Stephanus, from Ancient Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos).
Sources 5
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Estebán counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #107 | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 529 | 6.3K | Esteban | 174 |
| CO Colombia | #68 | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 753 | 17 | Esteban | 200 |
| US United States | — | 40,480 | 1 in 8.2K | 40K | Esteban | 434 |
| CL Chile | #39 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 476 | 265 | Esteban | 152 |
| PE Peru | #149 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Esteban | 97 |
| CR Costa Rica | #9 | 12,537 | 1 in 407 | 13K | Esteban | 134 |
| PY Paraguay | #85 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 623 | — | Esteban | 57 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Esteban Jameteb. 1515ESSpanish sculptor (1515-1565)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2019 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2018 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2011 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2007 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2004 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2014 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2012 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2010 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2005 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2002 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1994 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Estebán mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Stephanus, from Ancient Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos). Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 3 other sources.
- Is Estebán a male or female name?
- Estebán is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Estebán have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 86 thousand people named Estebán in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esteban.
- Where is Estebán most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Estebán is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 407 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Estebán?
- In the United States, the national register counted 40,480 people named Estebán in 2020, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Estebán compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Estebán is the 107th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Estebán?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/esteb%C3%A1nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Estebán” — the 107th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.