Esteban
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Greek Stephanos ‘garland, crown’, from stem meaning ‘to encircle, crown’ (Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 43 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/esˈteban/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Esteban is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 9th most common given name. Esteban is also written Εστεβαν in Greek and 에스테반 in Korean (Hangul).
- CLChile≈1 in 400(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 407
- ARArgentina≈1 in 500
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Esteban itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #616 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 434 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 395 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Esteban in other scripts: Greek and Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)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.
How to pronounce Esteban
- Spanish:/esˈteban/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Greek Stephanos ‘garland, crown’, from stem meaning ‘to encircle, crown’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Esteban, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Esteban 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #159 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 795 | 847 | Esteban | 221 |
| AR Argentina | #107 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 497 | 6.3K | Esteban | 174 |
| CO Colombia | #68 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 622 | 17 | Esteban | 200 |
| CL Chile | #39 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 395 | 265 | Esteban | 152 |
| US United States | — | 40,480 | 1 in 8.2K | 40K | Esteban | 434 |
| CR Costa Rica | #9 | 12,537 | 1 in 407 | 13K | Esteban | 134 |
| PY Paraguay | #85 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 579 | — | 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); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Esteban is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Spanish form of Stephen, from Greek Stephanos ‘crown, garland’
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Spanish, Stephen (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Se Stefan.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Forme espagnole d’Étienne/Étienne; origine grecque, « couronné ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Spanish form of Stephen
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Antonio Skármetab. 1940CLnot in their usual nameChilean writer and ambassador (1940–2024)
- Juanesb. 1972COnot in their usual nameColombian musician (born 1972)
- Esteban Oconb. 1996FRFrench racing driver
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)89 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 43 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Esteban mean, and where does it come from?
- from Greek Stephanos ‘garland, crown’, from stem meaning ‘to encircle, crown’. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Esteban?
- In Spanish /esˈteban/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Esteban a male or female name?
- Esteban is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024), Spain (INE) and Ecuador (INEC, 2024), among others.
- What are other forms of the name Esteban?
- In the etymology graph, Steven, Stephen and Stefan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people named Esteban?
- Mondonomo estimates about 165 thousand people named Esteban in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esteban. After it come Argentina, Colombia, Chile and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Esteban?
- In the United States, the national register counted 40,480 people named Esteban in 2020, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Esteban compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Esteban is the 159th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Esteban?
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/estebanThe 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, “Esteban” — ranked 97th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.