Esteban
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Greek Stephanos ‘garland, crown’, from stem meaning ‘to encircle, crown’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/esteban/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Esteban 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.
- 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)
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)
from Greek Stephanos ‘garland, crown’, from stem meaning ‘to encircle, crown’.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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).
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)
- Estêvão da Gamab. 1505PTnot in their usual namePortuguese colonial governor
- Antonio Skármetab. 1940CLnot in their usual nameChilean writer and ambassador (1940–2024)
- Steven Bauerb. 1956CUnot in their usual nameEuro-Indigenous Cuban-American character actor, producer, musician, and entrepreneur
- Juanesb. 1972COnot in their usual nameColombian musician (born 1972)
- Esteban Lamotheb. 1977ARArgentinian actor
- Esteban Cambiassob. 1980ARArgentine association football player
- Esteban Granerob. 1987ESSpanish footballer
- Esteban Alvaradob. 1989CRCosta Rican football player
- Esteban Gutiérrezb. 1991MXMexican race car driver
- 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)
Attested in 89 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 40K | #1,036 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 13K | #32 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 673 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 461 | #300 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 265 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 115 | #1,036 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 96 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 96 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 17 | #104 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 7 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 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?
- A machine transcription gives /esteban/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Esteban a male or female name?
- Esteban 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.
- 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.
- In which country does Esteban have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 86 thousand people named Esteban in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esteban.
- Where is Esteban most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Esteban 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 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 Argentina, Esteban is the 107th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Esteban?
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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” — the 107th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.